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.
In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.
The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, “the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in.”
Populists have never had a good press in Freedom’s land.
People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It’s generally wrong. Or oversimplified – which is sometimes useful.
We’re supposed to procreate and society, god knows, is ferocious on the subject. Heterosexuality is considered such a great and natural good that you have to execute people and put them in prison if they don’t practice this glorious act.
Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex; many don’t; many respond to both. This plurality is part of our nature and not worth fretting about.