The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.

[ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon.

A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew up in politics. This is why it seemed perfectly natural to take part in the battles of my time, and to participate in the writing of the history of my country.

Baum (Writer of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ) was a true educator, and those who read his Oz books are often made what they were not-imaginative , tolerant, alert to wonders, life.

One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

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.