As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

We have a great deal to learn from Scandinavia and a great deal to be alarmed at from the Mediterranean.

People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified - which is sometimes useful.

The British are absolutely hung up on class, and whenever they start to really - class for the English is like sex for Americans: They start to shake all over when the subject comes up.

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.