Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible. But people like to re-invent you, according to cliché.

Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex; many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is part of our nature and not worth fretting about.

I'm in Hollywood right now, surrounded by nothing but the sons and grandsons of movie stars.

I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!