Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

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

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

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

We were to be forever at war with somebody. We were going to fight communism everywhere on earth even if it didn't threaten us. It was a holy war, just as we've made one on terrorism and Islam, equally stupid and equally irrelevant.

In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.