Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. Nothing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.

I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.

Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major

You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

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.