Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country.

It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or to get money for having sex with someone who does not appeal to you-incidentally, the basis of half the marriages of my generation.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.

Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.