By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.

These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also.

Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.

Politically, of course, it's to the Right, but then the whole country is to the Right.

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.

I liked the trichotomy, that's the only thing I ever liked.