We were to be forever at war with somebody. We were going to fight communism everywhere on earth even if it didn't threaten us. It was a holy war, just as we've made one on terrorism and Islam, equally stupid and equally irrelevant.

Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.

What is a political party but a conspiracy?

By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.

In almost every case (where the United States has fought wars) our overwhelming commitment to freedom, democracy and human rights has required us to support those regimes that would deny freedom, democracy and human rights to their own people.

We've had parallel lives. And frankly, I prefer mine to his. I would not like to be George Bush.

Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.