[ Of Richard Nixon :] He turned being a BigLoser into a perfect triumph by managing to lose the presidency in a way bigger and more original than anyone else had ever lost it before.

[ Of Ronald Reagan :] A triumph of the embalmer’s art.

[Commercialism is] doing well that which should not be done at all.

[T]he family in the West is finished.... its origin was economic, not biological.... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another’s jagged edges.

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

A satirist is a man profoundly revolted by the society in which he lives. His rage takes the form of wit, ridicule, mockery.

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

Actually there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. Those sexual acts are entirely natural; if they were not, no one would perform them.

All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.