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.

In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

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.

Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.

Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.