If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever.

It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.

The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.

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

We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.