USA belongs to a handful of men who also control the media. Look at General Electric. It produces nuclear weapons for the Pentagon and also owns the NBC News cable channel, which is a very sophisticated censure apparatus, intrinsic to the system. It's genius. It's like an electronic cage around the nation which blocks information from getting through.

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.

If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

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.

When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my father was in Roosevelt's Cabinet, this is not the class that produces writers or reflective people.

I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it.