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

Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.

People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified - which is sometimes useful.

Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate or feed the people; it cannot do anything but kill the people. No State like that do we want prying into our private lives.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.

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