You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.
Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar.
The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.
It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.
Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.