Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.

How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest ruling class that I have ever come across in history. It's been two hundred years at it. It's superb.

Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage.

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'd say that Holland, Sweden, and Denmark are all better countries politically than the United States. The average person is far better off in one of those countries than he is in the United States and poverty of the sort that we have is absolutely unknown in Northern Europe.

The American vice is explanation.