I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.

Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea where Iraq is. They accept as the gospel whatever the government tells them. Good grief, any other normal country would have been against the Iraq war! But we live in an abnormal country, governed by experts in deceptive advertising.

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

I deny that there's such a thing as a gay person. I deny there's such a thing as a heterosexual person.

I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.

The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

We've had parallel lives. And frankly, I prefer mine to his. I would not like to be George Bush.