Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage.

I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.

The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

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

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.