I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.

I wonder why do wars suddenly start and suddenly stop, and why do we Brits and you Americans get involved in some of them and not in others? Is it possible that the arms manufacturers quietly foment wars without us knowing? Dropping bombs is a very profitable business for them. Gore Vidal was talking about this the other day, and he made a lot of sense. Whenever American policy seems inscrutable, he said, remember the military-industrial complex. He's the one who should have been President.

When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is the chief preoccupation to avoid), his sense of guilt, which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down the whip.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.