You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.

There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.

Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.

I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers.

Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied - as would anybody in his position.