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.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible.

The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and, says the author, countless Americans harassed by a government that wages spurious wars against drugs and terrorism.

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

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

People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified - which is sometimes useful.