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" Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off. "

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" I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it. "

" 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. "

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

" What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist. "

" Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing. "

" 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. "

" Gossip is conversation about people. "

" 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. "

" Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. "

" What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves. "

" I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst. "

" I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar - and not dissimilar - sphere of operations. "

" I never said I was gay, because I don't think anyone is. "

" My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.' "

" I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters. "

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

" 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. "

" Why not just eliminate the federal income tax? "

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

" I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water. "

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

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

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

" We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us. "

" 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. "

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