I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place.
I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers.
I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.
He’s a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.
Christianity is such a silly religion.
In the town of Ravella, where I have a house, when the Supreme Court said that an act of sodomy, as they describe it, could not be committed between a man and his wife, the entire square burst into laughter.
Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!
The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.
There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.
Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it’s gossip with some point to it. That’s why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers.
Love is a fan club with only two fans.
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
I’m devoted to promiscuity, and always have been. I believe the more you do, the better it is for you. I’m a great health nut, and sex is, I think, absolutely marvelous for the whole system; tones you up.
Never offend an enemy in a small way.
If you’re a critic of the rulers of the United States, you are either demonized, or you are trivialized by the press, and they do a very good job of making you into a non-person or a ridiculous person.
Next to “I win,” “I told you so” are the sweetest words.
I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.
When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my father was in Roosevelt’s Cabinet, this is not the class that produces writers or reflective people.