All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

Never offend an enemy in a small way.

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, "Well, so-and-so will like this," which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.

There are two things you never turn down: sex and appearing on television.