The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow.

Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.

He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.

People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world wars. My family became Unitarians instead - it's the same sort of thing.

I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline.

You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader can see what you mean.