Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.

U.S. certainly are not warlike. We don't want that. We want to make money, which I always thought was one of the most admirable things about Americans.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.