The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true. Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am.

Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists. I believe my country is beginning to resemble a theocracy. Using television, the evangelists raise appalling amounts of money which they then invest in the election of mentally disabled obscurantists.

CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place

There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.