I’m not a conspiracy theorist - I’m a conspiracy analyst.

Without communism ... our state lacks a Wizard of Oz to terrify all the people all the time. So the state looks inward, at the true enemy, who turns out to be - who else? the people of the United States.

Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.

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.

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

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.