There is no such thing as a true account of anything.
Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.
It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
I like the distance that Europe gives me. Also if I stayed in America I’d be a full-time politician and have no time for writing, which is why I went to Europe to live in 1961.
Realism has always been called cynicism.
Having no talent is no longer enough.
It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or to get money for having sex with someone who does not appeal to you-incidentally, the basis of half the marriages of my generation.
From the age of 1 to 6 there is a small percentage that is exclusively homosexual, a small percentage heterosexual and there’s a wide band in the middle of people who respond to various stimuli. A little bit here, a little more there.
Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.
Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.
People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.
Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some people practice another thing and that is the way human beings are.
All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.
If you’re not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential.
In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.
Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.
I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.
The problem with most Americans is that they don’t like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.
I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way.