You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters.

Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.

Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.

He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes.

So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.