"I have to tell everyone everything that's going on. It is different once you're married, because that's sacred."

"Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer."

"I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract."

"...Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an effective journalist."

"Say very mildly, we have only one political party in the U.S., the Property Party, with two right wings, Republican and Democrat."

"I'm a born-again atheist."

"There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices."

"Sexual revelation in literature, must be tactful and must serve plot"

"Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on."

"Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale."

"It is of no consequence what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life."

"Ronald Reagan is a triumph of the embalmer's art."

"What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions."

"To be categorized is, simply, to be enslaved"

"We no longer live in a nation, but in a Homeland."

"A good deed never goes unpunished."

"That's why Priscus is wisest of all: silence cannot be judged. Silence masks all things or no thing. Only Priscus can tell us what his silence conceals, but since he won't, we suspect him great."

"To turn life into words is to make life yours to do with as you please, instead of the other way round"

"Whether he knows it or not, the middle-income American is taxed as though he were living in a socialist society."

"Always beware of the fact, that the only thing hindering an all out revolution is your fear of losing the scraps they throw at you.--Twitter post, July 29, 2012"

"Love is not my bag."

"It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us."

"Prepare yourself for some bad news: Ronald Reagan’s library just burned down. Both books were destroyed. But the real horror: He hadn’t finished coloring either one of them."

"The rhetoric of hate is often most effective when couched in the idiom of love."