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The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.
That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.
I don't deny or affirm anything. I'm not very personal.
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.
Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.
CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.
Next to "I win," "I told you so" are the sweetest words.
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.
Americans worship the Constitution but do not observe it.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist - I’m a conspiracy analyst.
Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!
Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage.
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
I liked the trichotomy, that's the only thing I ever liked.
First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.
The people are not stupid, but they are totally misinformed.
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic.
Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.
In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.
Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy
a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)
I believe it's my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism.
It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.
I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters.
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever.
One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.
When I say 'president,' I still mean Roosevelt - wisely, I think.
Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.
Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.
All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.
Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.
Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner.
I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape.
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.