One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

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

I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.

Never have varmints, only grandvarmints.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public educational system we have for the average person. It's just grotesque.

I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest.