It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or to get money for having sex with someone who does not appeal to you-incidentally, the basis of half the marriages of my generation.

Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.

CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.

I'm a true reactionary. Like all patricians, I'd like to restore the original republic, which we lost 40 years ago when Harry Truman imposed the national security state on us, which has kept us at war, hot or cold, for almost half a century, and it's got us $4 trillion into debt.

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.