Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.
When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'
In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens.
a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)