I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging.

What is a political party but a conspiracy?

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.

Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest ruling class that I have ever come across in history. It's been two hundred years at it. It's superb.

I come from the highest class of all. I am a third-generation celebrity.

What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.