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

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

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

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

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.

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

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

From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out... It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.

I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic.

The United States is a madhouse.

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

I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.

I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.

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

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.'

Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.

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.

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

Envy is the central fact of American life.

I am not, at heart, a playwright.

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.

There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

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.

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

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.

Love is not my bag.

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.

When I say 'president,' I still mean Roosevelt - wisely, I think.

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

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

Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.

Certainly 'The Judgment of Paris' was the novel in which I found my own voice.

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

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.

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