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

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.

I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want.

Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.

Politically, of course, it's to the Right, but then the whole country is to the Right.