Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.

I would be literally patrician in the sense that the senators in ancient Rome were called conscript fathers, paters, from which comes the word patrician. So if you come from a senatorial family, you are literally patrician in that sense, but that doesn't mean that you couldn't be Billy Carter, you know, of recent memory.

There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed.

The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.

Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.

I was the first - I was extremely unpopular with the establishment of the United States, particularly the New York Times was always an enemy, and Time magazine, off and on, the enemy, because I said things and took positions that other people didn't do.