I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~

Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate or feed the people; it cannot do anything but kill the people. No State like that do we want prying into our private lives.

I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.

I look into my own black heart.

Politically, of course, it's to the Right, but then the whole country is to the Right.

When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago, it did many astounding things all over the globe. Inspired by a raging sky-god, the whites were able to pretend that their conquests were in order to bring the One God to everyone, particularly those with older and subtler religions.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.