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

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

What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world.... Any writer who lacks this final arrogance will not survive very long in America.

Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not affairs of the state. A government does not exist to control the citizens. When it does, it is a tyranny, and must be fought. The tree of liberty, Jefferson warned us, must be refreshed with the blood of tyrants and patriots.

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers.