France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in all of its forms, could have come with a categorizing of people as one thing or the other.

Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.

I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.

Love is a fan club with only two fans.