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.

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.

Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

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

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.