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

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

There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed.

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of survival - so highly developed in the individual - goes berserk in the mass. A crowd is a fool.

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.