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" Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60. "

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" I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that's the last thing I wanted. "

" Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, 'I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.' We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once. "

" 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. "

" For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific. "

" Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil. "

" Everything's wrong on Wikipedia. "

" 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. "

" As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I've always been very pro-African-American - or whatever phrase we now use. "

" In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor. "

" I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic. "

" In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative. "

" As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days. "

" 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. "

" Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. "

" It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. "

" Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing. "

" I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then. "

" Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality. "

" It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president. "

" An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents. "

" 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. "

" That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. "

" To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights. "

" It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer. "

" I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth. "

" I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view. "

" It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. "

" I am not, at heart, a playwright. "

" There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. "

" All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. "