People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and subduing [Nixon]

All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.

There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.

Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.