I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.
The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.
These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also.
When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'
I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no'.