Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay taxes

I deny that there's such a thing as a gay person. I deny there's such a thing as a heterosexual person.

I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track.

It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or to get money for having sex with someone who does not appeal to you-incidentally, the basis of half the marriages of my generation.

Altruism is a brief phase through which some adolescents must pass. It is rather like acne. Happily, as with acne, only a few are permanently scarred.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it.