A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions.

Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.

Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us that the totalitarian society is grounded upon the concept of God the father. One paternal god, one paternal leader. Authority is absolute.