It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.

All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy

I'm a true reactionary. Like all patricians, I'd like to restore the original republic, which we lost 40 years ago when Harry Truman imposed the national security state on us, which has kept us at war, hot or cold, for almost half a century, and it's got us $4 trillion into debt.

Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs.

I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.

He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.