We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents the people. The courts do not practice justice any more. The armies never stop playing at being the policemen of the world and of oil.

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.

Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. Nothing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.

These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

I deny that there's such a thing as a gay person. I deny there's such a thing as a heterosexual person.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.