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

In the town of Ravella, where I have a house, when the Supreme Court said that an act of sodomy, as they describe it, could not be committed between a man and his wife, the entire square burst into laughter.

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.

USA belongs to a handful of men who also control the media. Look at General Electric. It produces nuclear weapons for the Pentagon and also owns the NBC News cable channel, which is a very sophisticated censure apparatus, intrinsic to the system. It's genius. It's like an electronic cage around the nation which blocks information from getting through.

Everybody has two legs, two lobes to the brain which is why we tend to be interested in symmetry, always balancing things.

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

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.