I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but if at a neighborhood level violence is necessary, I'm all for violence. It's the only thing Americans understand.

Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs.

I’m not a conspiracy theorist - I’m a conspiracy analyst.

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.

God, or what have you, will not be found at the far end of a syllogism, no matter how brilliantly phrased or conceived.

I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.