Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

I spend most of my time in California. I feel I am fueled by rage and by the political climate there. I am angry most of the time when I am there, which might be unbearable for someone else, but for me it's fuel for my writing.

Christianity is such a silly religion.

What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.

If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.

American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.