I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

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

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.

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

The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.

Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it.