The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.

I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

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

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

I come from the highest class of all. I am a third-generation celebrity.

Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.