...We try to have things both ways. We’ve always refused to live by the book and the rule; but then why start worrying because the world doesn’t treat us by rule?

All politicians are not the same. I've never felt that way. What is the same is that voters get very excited about new faces, like Clinton and Blair - and they have unrealistic expectations that the world will change overnight. A cynical old hand like myself knows that it won't.

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.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one day that she had turned imperceptibly into one of those women who have become old without ever having been middle aged: a little withered, a little acid, hard as nails, sentimentally kindhearted, and addicted to religion or small dogs.

Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.