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" I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. "

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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. "

" TV news is not very instructive. "

" Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external. "

" Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale. "

" It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars. "

" It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally. "

" Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East. "

" My father had lifelong contempt for politicians. "

" The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions. "

" The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining. "

" I can understand companionship. "

" By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years. "

" Does one ever read a politician's books? "

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

" A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. "

" Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better... next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for 'progress;' it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction. "

" 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. "

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

" Didn't George Washington say, 'He who controls Afghanistan will carry New Jersey?' "

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

" Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again. "

" Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. "

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

" On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia. "

" History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. "

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

" A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact. "

" I know a lot of the Annapolis breed. "

" I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place. "