To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.

I come from the highest class of all. I am a third-generation celebrity.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.