I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.