I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously.

When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.

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?

The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.

You have the right to speak your mind.

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.