It used to be the custom in this country that when you had made a career and were mature in judgment, you went to the Senate to give something back t the Republic. The idea that at age 25 you go out and buy a blow dryer and starting running for office is not what the founders had in mind

I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.

Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.

Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art.