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

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.

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

I like the distance that Europe gives me. Also if I stayed in America I'd be a full-time politician and have no time for writing, which is why I went to Europe to live in 1961.