I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write - I mean if you're supposed to be writing.

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.

I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

All of television's appalling, but this is hardly a new statement.