I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.

I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.

Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible. But people like to re-invent you, according to cliché.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.