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

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

" The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library. "

" Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after. "

" 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. "

" Why not just eliminate the federal income tax? "

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

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

" Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself. "

" There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. "

" 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. "

" TV news is not very instructive. "

" Envy is the central fact of American life. "

" 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.' "

" A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive. "

" I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936. "

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

" Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery. "

" I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind. "

" There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. "

" The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once. "

" In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are. "

" 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. "

" The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind. "

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

" There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier. "

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