Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

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

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

I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.

From the age of 1 to 6 there is a small percentage that is exclusively homosexual, a small percentage heterosexual and there's a wide band in the middle of people who respond to various stimuli. A little bit here, a little more there.

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!