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.

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.

Heaven's sakes, there's only one party which I call the Property Party. It's got two wings. One is called the "Republican" and one is called "Democratic." It is the same party so it makes no difference whether a Democrat's elected or a Republican's elected. The ownership remains the same.

Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.

I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers.

The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.