The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.