We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging.

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

We've had parallel lives. And frankly, I prefer mine to his. I would not like to be George Bush.