I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
Never have children, only grandchildren.
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
You can’t be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it. And the politician must never give the game away.
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
I come from the highest class of all. I am a third-generation celebrity.
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
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.
Before the word gay had really been invented, was there’s no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters – based upon our peasant superstitions, religious superstitions – would they make categories. Everybody’s everything.
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.
Obviously I’m in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.
At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care – if, that is, you’re going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler.