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.

Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the war machine. Now we have alienated almost the entire earth

Vitriolic is a needless and malign attack on something, excessive attack on something. It is a rather pointless thing to do.

The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.

I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.

To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.

The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.