If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.

To have an interest in both sexes is equally normal. Whether it's practiced or not is something else. Some do. Some don't.

It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.

These little books I write, such as The End of Freedom, about the post-9/11 political climate in the United States, sell in the hundreds of thousands of copies. Whereas, I hear novels on marriage are not selling. This is perhaps not the judgment of God, but it is certainly that of history.

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.