The older I get the more secrets I have, never to be revealed and this, I know, is a common condition of people my age. and why all this emphasis on kissing and telling? Kisses are the least of it.

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class.

None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.