Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'

Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be at war Congress has to vote for it. He says we are at war on terror, but that is a metaphor, though I doubt if he knows what that means. It's like having a war on dandruff, it's endless and pointless.

In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

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

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.

I'm devoted to promiscuity, and always have been. I believe the more you do, the better it is for you. I'm a great health nut, and sex is, I think, absolutely marvelous for the whole system; tones you up.