If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.

I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that I led in Rome and the classical library at the America Academy.

Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.

The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological, if understandable. At one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a buck, giving a part of that buck to any government is an act against nature.

The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.

Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied - as would anybody in his position.

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.