The Gores, I think, are a bit brighter than the Bushes, historically speaking.

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.

Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.

Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some people practice another thing and that is the way human beings are.

Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting to organize their country in their own way politically. This happens to be pretty much the opinion of western Europe and the other parts of the world.

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.