No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.

Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists. I believe my country is beginning to resemble a theocracy. Using television, the evangelists raise appalling amounts of money which they then invest in the election of mentally disabled obscurantists.

The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no'.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.