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

It doesn't actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that it has been able to make the people think that they have had something to do with the electing of presidents for 200 years when they've had absolutely nothing to say about the candidates or the policies or the way the country is run.

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

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

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.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.