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

Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing this, the United States are going to absolute ruin.

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

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

If you're a critic of the rulers of the United States, you are either demonized, or you are trivialized by the press, and they do a very good job of making you into a non-person or a ridiculous person.

Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.