Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.
China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's a very bad idea.
Even when America is not working that well, it still works better than other places.
When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling.
I've never had the experience of being edited and never will.
My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature, I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish.