What Franklin Roosevelt did, which really offended them, was he strengthened the labor unions - made it possible for them to strike. The oligarchs were furious because the working class was not supposed to have any power at all.

Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.

And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.

There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: "C-Students from Yale".

Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.