I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.

First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.

I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place

Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.