Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

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

What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.

Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now.

I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery.