People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies. They are used to getting things through the eye and the ear. In a small way, literature goes on being written, but few people like it. Once it's bureaucratized by the schoolteachers, the game's up.

It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.

I don't deny or affirm anything. I'm not very personal.

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.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true. Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am.

We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.