I'm in Hollywood right now, surrounded by nothing but the sons and grandsons of movie stars.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

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

Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.

Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business the small entrepreneur. Also, in their conglomerate form, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the very legitimacy of the state.