The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.

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!

I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.

When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my father was in Roosevelt's Cabinet, this is not the class that produces writers or reflective people.

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.