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

Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.

If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.

If you're not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential.