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" In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas. "

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" 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. "

" At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice. "

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

" Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes. "

" Envy is the central fact of American life. "

" All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world. "

" It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there. "

" You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right. "

" Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows. "

" There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices. "

" I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape. "

" The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die. "

" It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money. "

" While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers. "

" Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing. "

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

" Why not just eliminate the federal income tax? "

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

" After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes. "

" Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. "

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

" Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. "

" As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. "

" After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets. "

" 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. "

" Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. "

" There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. "

" Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read. "

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