To have an interest in both sexes is equally normal. Whether it's practiced or not is something else. Some do. Some don't.

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

You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.

Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.

Vitriolic is a needless and malign attack on something, excessive attack on something. It is a rather pointless thing to do.

When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president who would reduce taxes for his employers, the Southern and Western New Rich, much of whose money came from the defence industries. There is nothing unusual about this arrangement. All recent presidents have had their price-tags.

One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.