[Norman Mailer] is against masturbation, he's against homosexuality. He believes that murder is essentially sexual. I think he's rather an anthology of all the darkest American traits.

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

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.

If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.

They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy, they tell lies, lies, lies. The New York Times goes along with their lies, lies, lies. And they don't stop. When the public that's lied to 30 times a day it's apt to believe the lies, is not it?

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.