I look into my own black heart.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.

The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.

I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery.

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.