I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.

I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest.

When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'

What is a political party but a conspiracy?

My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.

Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.

All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.