I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of survival - so highly developed in the individual - goes berserk in the mass. A crowd is a fool.

CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.

Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.

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

People like to re-invent you, according to cliché. There are a lot of stores about me that really apply only to Capote or Mailer or somebody else. Everything is a mish mash.