You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it. And the politician must never give the game away.

You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

If you're a critic of the rulers of the United States, you are either demonized, or you are trivialized by the press, and they do a very good job of making you into a non-person or a ridiculous person.

Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)

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

Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.