Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
I'm a born-again atheist.
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.
He who is last had best laugh.
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.
The United States is a madhouse.
McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.
I can understand companionship.
'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
The four most beautiful words in our common language I told you so.
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic.
I never said I was gay, because I don't think anyone is.
I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
Envy is the central fact of American life.
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that's the last thing I wanted.
Love is not my bag.
