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The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.
Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.
American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.
The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.
In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable.
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers.
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
I come from the highest class of all. I am a third-generation celebrity.
Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.
Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers.
For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
I was born a writer. When that happens, you have no choice in the matter.
Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.
There are two things you never turn down: sex and appearing on television.
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.
I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.
Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.
I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.
It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.
I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.
There are so many things the people who take polls never get around to asking.
The Gores, I think, are a bit brighter than the Bushes, historically speaking.
The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.
We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.
If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
If you're not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential.
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.
An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents.
Didn't George Washington say, 'He who controls Afghanistan will carry New Jersey?'
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.
To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.
I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest.
I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.