 There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. |
| Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. |
| The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. |
| Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. |
| 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. |
| Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. |
| That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. |
| Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. |
| The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. |
| It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail. |
| We're not a democracy. |
| As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days. |
| A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. |
| Never have children, only grandchildren. |
| Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences. |
| On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. |
| Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. |
| To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. |
| Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil. |
