Eventually all things are known. And few matter.
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
As for our Ouija-board Supreme Court, it would be nice if they would take time off from holding séances with the long-dead founders, whose original intent so puzzles them, and actually examine what th...
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
A nation not of men but of laws, intoned John Adams as he, among other lawyers, launched what has easily become the most demented society ever consciously devised by intelligent men. We are now enslav...
What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the b...
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing...
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.
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
I have never been an eavesdropper, even in childhood. Not from any sense of virtue but because I really do not want to know what people think of me or, to be precise, what they say of me - often a dif...
How hungrily we read about ourselves!
We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.
Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.
Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.
I said it. I like to quote myself. I am not modest.
No one can ever love us quite so much as we love ourselves.
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.