American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.

I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain time, then they become Ministers of Culture under de Gaulle, and they begin living their own fictions.

Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy

It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or to get money for having sex with someone who does not appeal to you-incidentally, the basis of half the marriages of my generation.

All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.

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

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.