In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.

There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed.

Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica of the Roman or Venetian republics. They didn't even like the etymology of the word "democracy."

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity; of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything.