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

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

I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied - as would anybody in his position.

The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.

If you're a critic of the rulers of the United States, you are either demonized, or you are trivialized by the press, and they do a very good job of making you into a non-person or a ridiculous person.