I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.

We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.

USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age.

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

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

It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.

The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.