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.

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

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.

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

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.