Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.

I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.

I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but if at a neighborhood level violence is necessary, I'm all for violence. It's the only thing Americans understand.