First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.

I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.

Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.

I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible.

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.