Since when was the stock market an accurate barometer of anything?

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.

Let us then remember the dead-and all wars-gratefully. And let us hope that because of them we may become a touch better, a thimbleful wiser, and a handshake more tolerant of this changing world they did not live to see.

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family's life have been enriched by this. I think a writer has to experience new environments. There is that adage: No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.