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

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.

Altruism is a brief phase through which some adolescents must pass. It is rather like acne. Happily, as with acne, only a few are permanently scarred.

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.

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.

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

I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us.