There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.

A huge number of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. You have a people that don't know anything about the rest of the world, and you have leaders who lie to them, lie to them, and lie to them.

Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.

No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels.

People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies. They are used to getting things through the eye and the ear. In a small way, literature goes on being written, but few people like it. Once it's bureaucratized by the schoolteachers, the game's up.