In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.

A huge number of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. You have a people that don't know anything about the rest of the world, and you have leaders who lie to them, lie to them, and lie to them.

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.

To have an interest in both sexes is equally normal. Whether it's practiced or not is something else. Some do. Some don't.

To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to the United States. You don't hear two Italians sitting around complimenting each other because they actually like to go to bed with women. The American is hysterical about his manhood.

I'm in Hollywood right now, surrounded by nothing but the sons and grandsons of movie stars.