The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a duty to vote. This is like being told you have a duty to buy a new car, but you have to choose immediately between a Ford and a Chevy.

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.

The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.

If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.