I keep as far from children as possible. I don't like the size of them; the scale is all wrong. The head tends to be too big for the bodies and the hands and feet are a disaster and they keep falling into things, and the nakedness of their bad character.

I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.

Without communism ... our state lacks a Wizard of Oz to terrify all the people all the time. So the state looks inward, at the true enemy, who turns out to be - who else? the people of the United States.

I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.

Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that I can't always distinguish. You see, we neither love nor hate in my world. We simply have hobbies.

Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want.