I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair. — Gore Vidal. American writer (1925–2012)
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. … I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.