Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors. - Gore Vidal

Islam, Judaism, Christianity are the three great evils that have befallen the world.

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).

It was ready-made for them to call an emergency and pretend it was war-time, you know, the war on terrorism is a metaphor, and terrorism is an abstract noun. It's like a "war on dandruff." There's no such thing, you know. It isn't war, it's just a slogan. But using the slogan they got through the U.S.A. Patriot Act, which removes many of our liberties. Nobody made a sound when we lost Habeas Corpus—due process of law—and suddenly Bush managed to get rid of it. Where was a voice on television, aside from mine, that spoke out against this? Where were all those noble jurists, those great lawyers, those lovers of liberty, where the hell were they? They were nowhere!