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

I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.

I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care — if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler.

It doesn't actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that it has been able to make the people think that they have had something to do with the electing of presidents for 200 years when they've had absolutely nothing to say about the candidates or the policies or the way the country is run.

I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible.