It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.

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

I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way.

The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an enemy to provoke, a diversion. This is the mentality of tenth-rate people who are in politics because corporate America likes them. They are malleable. They give them contracts to build missile shields that will never work. It's deeply corrupt.

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

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.