The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age. They say, "We were elected by the gods to govern the planet." But the truth is that what counts is getting hold of the last oil reserves. Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing this, the country is going to absolute ruin.

The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country.

I'm in favor of sexual encounters.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?