I would be literally patrician in the sense that the senators in ancient Rome were called conscript fathers, paters, from which comes the word patrician. So if you come from a senatorial family, you are literally patrician in that sense, but that doesn't mean that you couldn't be Billy Carter, you know, of recent memory.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?

I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

Christianity is such a silly religion.

There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.

The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.