The people are not stupid, but they are totally misinformed.

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.

People like to re-invent you, according to cliché. There are a lot of stores about me that really apply only to Capote or Mailer or somebody else. Everything is a mish mash.

I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want.

Eisenhower's career demonstrated how it is possible to fool all the people all the time...'I may be stupid,' he once said at a press conference, 'but at least I'm sincere!' Actually, he was neither, but it suited his purpose to play the part of the bumbling man of good will who was 'not an expert in these matters' but somehow would do his best.

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

We've had parallel lives. And frankly, I prefer mine to his. I would not like to be George Bush.