In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.
From David Mamet
I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.
I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.
I won't ever do e-mail.
I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.
I don't really have a social life.
I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.
It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.
There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.
If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.
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