The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.

I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it.

I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did.

Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.

The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead now. The theoretical corpses laughed and ate a hearty noontime meal.