I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.

It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money ran out - were always better than ours since the city was the political capital of the country, as well as the artistic and literary one. In L.A. we've always been slightly sealed off from real life. It's no accident that two of our most interesting directors, Woody Allen and Bob Altman, are more or less settled in the real world.

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

To have an interest in both sexes is equally normal. Whether it's practiced or not is something else. Some do. Some don't.

Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.

I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that I led in Rome and the classical library at the America Academy.

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