The same people own the media that own the White House that own the Congress that own the oil fields. They all work together to give a false view of the world to the American people.
Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.
Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.
Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind.
Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.
The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.
Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one’s own cherished beliefs.
I believe it’s my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism.
Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
There are two things you never turn down: sex and appearing on television.
The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.
Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer’s art.
Politically, of course, it’s to the Right, but then the whole country is to the Right.
As one gets older, litigation replaces sex.
Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.
Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions.
There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable.
Somebody has to keep score and I decided I was going to do it. I’m a born score-keeper and I realize, like an umpire, that my decisions may cause distress.
But women are always attracted to power. I do not think there could ever be a conqueror so bloody that most women would not willingly lie with him in the hope of bearing a son who would be every bit as ferocious as the father.