Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable.

Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.