It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

"Writing is a way of thinking, it's a way of working things out."

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

The best leaders are those who listen more than they speak, and act more than they promise.