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

I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging.

Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.

The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an enemy to provoke, a diversion. This is the mentality of tenth-rate people who are in politics because corporate America likes them. They are malleable. They give them contracts to build missile shields that will never work. It's deeply corrupt.

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

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

If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.