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.

Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.

Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

Without communism ... our state lacks a Wizard of Oz to terrify all the people all the time. So the state looks inward, at the true enemy, who turns out to be - who else? the people of the United States.

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.

You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.