anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and subduing [Nixon]

A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as we sink slowly, mindlessly, into herstory rather than history because most rapists are men, aren't they?

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

I'd say that Holland, Sweden, and Denmark are all better countries politically than the United States. The average person is far better off in one of those countries than he is in the United States and poverty of the sort that we have is absolutely unknown in Northern Europe.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.