There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

It doesn't actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that it has been able to make the people think that they have had something to do with the electing of presidents for 200 years when they've had absolutely nothing to say about the candidates or the policies or the way the country is run.

I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.