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„Chápu společný život. Chápu sex za peníze. Nepochopím lásku.“

„Po bílém víně myslím na hlouposti. Po červeném víně říkám hlouposti. Po sektu děláme hlouposti.“

„Kdykoliv má můj přítel úspěch, něco ve mně umírá.“

„Jistí lidé po padesátce nahrazují sex soudními spory.“

„Pokaždé, když má přítel úspěch, trochu umírám.“

„Nikdy neměj děti. Jenom vnoučata.“

„Narcista je člověk, který vypadá lépe než vy.“

„Já jsem byl při Obamově zvolení optimista, jako všichni, jenže on na to nemá. Znovu už zvolen nebude. Je smůla, že je prvním intelektuálem-prezidentem, jakého jsme měli za mnoho let, ale on to nezmákne. Je zavalený. A kdo by nebyl? Spojené státy jsou obyčejný blázinec. Tu zemi by měl někdo strčit někam do kouta - a nám všem by měl říct, ať jdeme jinam. Nic už tam nedává smysl.“

“Books always cost more in those cities where they are least read!”

“I complain about the United States not being Athens. I certainly say we are a very good Roman republic, and the lies are based upon the most advanced techniques of advertising, which is the only art form my country has ever created — the television commercial — and we sell soap and presidents in the same fashion. Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back.”

“You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public educational system we have for the average person. It's just grotesque.”

“There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, "Well, so-and-so will like this," which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.”

“The reason no one has yet been able to come up with a good word to describe the homosexualist (sometimes known as gay, fag, queer, etc.) is because he does not exist. The human race is divided into male and female. Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex, many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is the fact of our nature and not worth fretting about.”

“Constantine was never a true Galilean; he merely used Christianity to extend his dominion over the world. He was a shrewd professional soldier, badly educated and not in the least interested in philosophy, though some perverse taste in him was hugely satisfied by doctrinal disputes; the mad haggling of bishops fascinated him.”

“By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.”

“Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.”

“Envy is the central fact of American life.”

“Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions.”

“Those who seem to think that the Bush administration had something to do with 9-11… I can prove that they didn't. They are totally incompetent! 9-11 was a brilliantly executed strike on the United States. I can't imagine anybody… I can't even imagine… Can you imagine Cheney, mumbling around, orchestrating something like that?”

“I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam — good people, yes, but any religion based on a single… well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system that has worked pretty well for twenty-five hundred years. So you see I am ecumenical in my dislike for the Book. But like it or not, the Book is there; and because of it people die; and the world is in danger.”