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

In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

[Norman Mailer] is against masturbation, he's against homosexuality. He believes that murder is essentially sexual. I think he's rather an anthology of all the darkest American traits.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible.

I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.

Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.