"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.

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

One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.

I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.

We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.

I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.

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.