Somebody has to keep score and I decided I was going to do it. I'm a born score-keeper and I realize, like an umpire, that my decisions may cause distress.

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.

The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

I look into my own black heart.

Americans worship the Constitution but do not observe it.

I come from the highest class of all. I am a third-generation celebrity.