Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that I can't always distinguish. You see, we neither love nor hate in my world. We simply have hobbies.
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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.
The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
Lennon was somebody who was a born enemy of those who govern the United States. He was everything they hated. So I just say that he represented life, and is admirable; and Mr. Nixon and Mr. Bush represent death, and that is a bad thing.
Apparently, conspiracy stuff is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.
Envy is the central fact of American life.
Never have children, only grand children.
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
It makes no difference whom you vote for -- the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.
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