I like Italy. I was always at home there, it's a marvelous place to become invisible. Nobody bothers you and nobody is interested in you and I find that very good for work.

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.

Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.

If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.