It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.

Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my father was in Roosevelt's Cabinet, this is not the class that produces writers or reflective people.

We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.

Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in all of its forms, could have come with a categorizing of people as one thing or the other.