The British are absolutely hung up on class, and whenever they start to really - class for the English is like sex for Americans: They start to shake all over when the subject comes up.

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.