If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.

The Gores, I think, are a bit brighter than the Bushes, historically speaking.

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment.

Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage.

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.