The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did.

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

Before the word gay had really been invented, was there's no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters - based upon our peasant superstitions, religious superstitions - would they make categories. Everybody's everything.

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.

Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.