It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.

Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.

A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.

Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.