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"I would be literally patrician in the sense that the senators in ancient Rome were called conscript fathers, paters, from which comes the word patrician. So if you come from a senatorial family, you are literally patrician in that sense, but that doesn't mean that you couldn't be Billy Carter, you know, of recent memory."
"Vitriolic is a needless and malign attack on something, excessive attack on something. It is a rather pointless thing to do."
"Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage."
"People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia."
"I come from the highest class of all. I am a third-generation celebrity."
"A huge number of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. You have a people that don't know anything about the rest of the world, and you have leaders who lie to them, lie to them, and lie to them."
"I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time."
"If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies."
"Before the word gay had really been invented, was there's no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters - based upon our peasant superstitions, religious superstitions - would they make categories. Everybody's everything."
"Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians."
"I don't deny or affirm anything. I'm not very personal."
"I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that I led in Rome and the classical library at the America Academy."
"I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers."
"Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing this, the United States are going to absolute ruin."
"No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels."
"I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality."
"I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started."
"What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter."
"I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground."
"I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain time, then they become Ministers of Culture under de Gaulle, and they begin living their own fictions."