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

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.

I spend most of my time in California. I feel I am fueled by rage and by the political climate there. I am angry most of the time when I am there, which might be unbearable for someone else, but for me it's fuel for my writing.

When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.