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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.

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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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