Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.

Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists. I believe my country is beginning to resemble a theocracy. Using television, the evangelists raise appalling amounts of money which they then invest in the election of mentally disabled obscurantists.

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

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.