Next to "I win," "I told you so" are the sweetest words.

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents the people. The courts do not practice justice any more. The armies never stop playing at being the policemen of the world and of oil.

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.

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

What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world.... Any writer who lacks this final arrogance will not survive very long in America.