There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.

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.

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

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

If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.