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.

Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.

Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.

Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.