I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex; many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is part of our nature and not worth fretting about.

I would be literally patrician in the sense that the senators in ancient Rome were called conscript fathers, paters, from which comes the word patrician. So if you come from a senatorial family, you are literally patrician in that sense, but that doesn't mean that you couldn't be Billy Carter, you know, of recent memory.

Never offend an enemy in a small way.

The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.