There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

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'm devoted to promiscuity, and always have been. I believe the more you do, the better it is for you. I'm a great health nut, and sex is, I think, absolutely marvelous for the whole system; tones you up.

I like the distance that Europe gives me. Also if I stayed in America I'd be a full-time politician and have no time for writing, which is why I went to Europe to live in 1961.

My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

I don't deny or affirm anything. I'm not very personal.