Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.

Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business the small entrepreneur. Also, in their conglomerate form, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the very legitimacy of the state.

To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.

All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some people practice another thing and that is the way human beings are.

If you're not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential.

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