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.

Heaven's sakes, there's only one party which I call the Property Party. It's got two wings. One is called the "Republican" and one is called "Democratic." It is the same party so it makes no difference whether a Democrat's elected or a Republican's elected. The ownership remains the same.

Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

I’m not a conspiracy theorist - I’m a conspiracy analyst.

Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.

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

I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest.