All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.

Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.

I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.

In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.

Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?