“I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress.”

“Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill.”

“I'm sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we're Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration.”

“Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.”

“It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.”

“Americans have a severe disease — worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.”