Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

I deny that there's such a thing as a gay person. I deny there's such a thing as a heterosexual person.

Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

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.