Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.

I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'. Then, because my grandfather, Senator Gore, was blind, I was required early on to read grown-up books to him, mostly constitutional law and, of course, the Congressional Record. The later continence of my style is a miracle, considering those years of piping the additional remarks of Mr. Borah of Idaho.

Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.

Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.