Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

[ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon.

I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~

Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists. I believe my country is beginning to resemble a theocracy. Using television, the evangelists raise appalling amounts of money which they then invest in the election of mentally disabled obscurantists.

To have an interest in both sexes is equally normal. Whether it's practiced or not is something else. Some do. Some don't.