Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar.

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.

Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.

In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.

I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate

I never stopped reading.

The 1960s was probably the first time in history that young people were recognized as a big group of consumers and as a commercial proposition for Madison Avenue. Advertising played a major role in creating the ethos of that era - the idea that, "Here it is, and you can have it now." I know that many kids thought that the ethos of the 1960s was due to their own peculiar virtues, but, in fact, it had a lot to do with the realities of the marketplace and commerce.