The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

I was born a writer. When that happens, you have no choice in the matter.

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.

In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.

Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.