History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.
The people are not stupid, but they are totally misinformed.
[Norman Mailer] is against masturbation, he's against homosexuality. He believes that murder is essentially sexual. I think he's rather an anthology of all the darkest American traits.
The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.
If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.
I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain time, then they become Ministers of Culture under de Gaulle, and they begin living their own fictions.