Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.

Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

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.

Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.

I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.

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.

Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.