Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be at war Congress has to vote for it. He says we are at war on terror, but that is a metaphor, though I doubt if he knows what that means. It's like having a war on dandruff, it's endless and pointless.

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.

The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country.

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.

Christianity is such a silly religion.

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.