The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.

What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.

I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.

Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art.

It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.

People like to re-invent you, according to cliché. There are a lot of stores about me that really apply only to Capote or Mailer or somebody else. Everything is a mish mash.