Having no talent is no longer enough.

Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

The American vice is explanation.

I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.

Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.

Americans worship the Constitution but do not observe it.

The people are not stupid, but they are totally misinformed.