An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.

She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.

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

Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.

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