Never have children, only grandchildren.

To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.

When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.

You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.

You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it. And the politician must never give the game away.

American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.

I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.