Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's realism but in America it's called cynicism.

Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.

Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.

American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.

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.