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" Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin. "

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" The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes. "

" During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist. "

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" In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it. "

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" Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world. "

" As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city. "

" Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it. "

" The media can't get anything straight. "

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" Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone. "

" Certainly 'The Judgment of Paris' was the novel in which I found my own voice. "

" Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there. "

" What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives. "

" What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke? "

" Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences. "

" I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones. "

" On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. "

" 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. "

" As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln. "

" 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. "

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" No sooner does an American president take his oath of office than the speculation begins: Will he be reelected in four years' time? If not, who will succeed him? A member of his own party? The other party? "

" One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves. "

" Envy is the central fact of American life. "

" The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted. "

" I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch. "