Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal; if they were not, no one would perform them.
Andy Warhol is the only genius I’ve ever known with an IQ of 60.
I believe there’s something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but if at a neighborhood level violence is necessary, I’m all for violence. It’s the only thing Americans understand.
How hungrily we read about ourselves!
The planet Venus, a circle of silver in a green sky, pierced the edge of the evening while the wintry woods darkened about me and in the stillness the regular sound of my footsteps striking the pavement was like a the rhythmic beating of a giant stone heart.
For a man to successful, not only must he succeed but his friends must also fail.
The rhetoric of hate is often most effective when couched in the idiom of love.
Love it or loathe it, you can never leave it or lose it.
It was of course Jefferson’s gift at one time or another to put with eloquence the “right” answer to every moral question. In practice, however, he seldom deviated from an opportunistic course, calculated to bring him power.
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
You know, I’ve been around the ruling class all my life, and I’ve been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.
No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.
The unfed mind devours itself.
We should stop going around babbling about how we’re the greatest democracy on earth, when we’re not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.
I deny that there’s such a thing as a gay person. I deny there’s such a thing as a heterosexual person.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.