As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.

To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit.....when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?

I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I found such thoughtful and literate reportage on the state of the American soul, as that soul makes itself known in the books we write.