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

Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.

There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed.

I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.

I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time.

I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice.