The same people own the media that own the White House that own the Congress that own the oil fields. They all work together to give a false view of the world to the American people.

You will be favourable to Burr, and so must fail because the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest country on earth, Washington the greatest man that ever lived, Burr the wickedest, and evidence to the contrary is not admissible. That means no inconvenient facts, no new information. If you really want the reader's attention, you must flatter him. Make his prejudices your own. Tell him things he already knows. He will love your soundness.

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

When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.

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 am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it.

Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.