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

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

The Gores, I think, are a bit brighter than the Bushes, historically speaking.

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, "Well, so-and-so will like this," which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.

The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be. Any individual who is able to raise $25 million to be considered presidential is not going to be much use to the people at large. He will represent oil, or aerospace, or banking, or whatever moneyed entities are paying for him. Certainly he will never represent the people of the country, and they know it. Hence, the sense of despair throughout the land as incomes fall, businesses fail and there is no redress.