Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.

On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

His hair has the long jesuschrist look. He is wearing the costume clothes. But most of all, he now has a very tolerant and therefore withering attitude toward all those who are still struggling in the old activist political ways...while he, with the help of psychedelic chemicals, is exploring the infinite regions of human consciousness.