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" There are so many things the people who take polls never get around to asking. "

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" My father had lifelong contempt for politicians. "

" The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. "

" It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill. "

" Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at the galaxy's edge... there is all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. No thing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all. "

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

" Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military. "

" All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: 'Why, that's us up there, and aren't we - for all our little foibles - pretty nice guys and gals?' "

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

" Why not just eliminate the federal income tax? "

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

" Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. "

" 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. "

" I am not, at heart, a playwright. "

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

" Envy is the central fact of American life. "

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

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

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

" We're not a democracy. "