When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left to the Center where the curative votes are.

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.

Movie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything else until the last trump is called - or whatever it is they do.

I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.

USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age.