Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it. And the politician must never give the game away.

I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

The worst that can be said about pornography is that it leads not to anti-social acts but to the reading of more pornography