Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets.

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.

I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell and truly understand.

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

The right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances is now worth a pitcher of warm spit. That's because TV will not come and treat it respectfully. Television is really something.

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they are made of.