The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.

The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the time they bombed Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, and I felt there something like a foretaste of the end of the world.

When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.

The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.

It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or to get money for having sex with someone who does not appeal to you-incidentally, the basis of half the marriages of my generation.