The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
It makes no difference who you vote for – the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that’s just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.
In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death.
The British are absolutely hung up on class, and whenever they start to really – class for the English is like sex for Americans: They start to shake all over when the subject comes up.
The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn’t be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did.
I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest.
The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It’s a metaphor. It’s not about anything.
These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I’m writing, I don’t politick.
Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else’s is the wrong one.
True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don’t know quite as well as you know what you do know.
I said, well, it’s a very primitive country, the United States, and it’s full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.