Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
I'm always an optimist!
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic.
For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
Certainly 'The Judgment of Paris' was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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.
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.
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
There are so many things the people who take polls never get around to asking.
An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents.
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape.
During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist.
You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?