I can`t get excited about politics, but I love it as a game. Because what I love in politics - this is very selfish of me, but who cares - what I do love in politics is this ability it has to make you think in new ways.

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.

A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius.

Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.

Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.