Eventually all things are known. And few matter.
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...
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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.
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.
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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.
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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...
Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.
When Franklin says yes, yes, yes, he isn’t agreeing with you. He’s just listening to you.
Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.
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.
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Ideally, of course, a relationship is best, but then how many people are capable of deep feeling? Practically none.