I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be at war Congress has to vote for it. He says we are at war on terror, but that is a metaphor, though I doubt if he knows what that means. It's like having a war on dandruff, it's endless and pointless.

The British are absolutely hung up on class, and whenever they start to really - class for the English is like sex for Americans: They start to shake all over when the subject comes up.

In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.

I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.

Politically, of course, it's to the Right, but then the whole country is to the Right.