We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied - as would anybody in his position.

U.S. certainly are not warlike. We don't want that. We want to make money, which I always thought was one of the most admirable things about Americans.

When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president who would reduce taxes for his employers, the Southern and Western New Rich, much of whose money came from the defence industries. There is nothing unusual about this arrangement. All recent presidents have had their price-tags.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner.

I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.