I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.

Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

I like the distance that Europe gives me. Also if I stayed in America I'd be a full-time politician and have no time for writing, which is why I went to Europe to live in 1961.

One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.

USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age.

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