Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

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

Envy is the central fact of American life.

The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a good deal more dangerous to the polity than the people at large.

I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists. I believe my country is beginning to resemble a theocracy. Using television, the evangelists raise appalling amounts of money which they then invest in the election of mentally disabled obscurantists.