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

This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment.

Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that I can't always distinguish. You see, we neither love nor hate in my world. We simply have hobbies.

It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.

I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.

I was born a writer. When that happens, you have no choice in the matter.

I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.