So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.

America has an almost obscene infatuation with itself. Has there ever been a big, powerful country that is as patriotic as America? And patriotic in the tinniest way, with so much flag waving? You'd really think we were some poor little republic, and that if one person lost his religion for one hour, the whole thing would crumble. America is the real religion in this country.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.

The great power in America is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. We`re run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?