Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the war machine. Now we have alienated almost the entire earth

Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.

He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.

What is a political party but a conspiracy?

The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

These little books I write, such as The End of Freedom, about the post-9/11 political climate in the United States, sell in the hundreds of thousands of copies. Whereas, I hear novels on marriage are not selling. This is perhaps not the judgment of God, but it is certainly that of history.