We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, in passing.

I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.

I'd say that Holland, Sweden, and Denmark are all better countries politically than the United States. The average person is far better off in one of those countries than he is in the United States and poverty of the sort that we have is absolutely unknown in Northern Europe.

Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.

Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.

These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.