I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.

I like Italy. I was always at home there, it's a marvelous place to become invisible. Nobody bothers you and nobody is interested in you and I find that very good for work.

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

If you're a critic of the rulers of the United States, you are either demonized, or you are trivialized by the press, and they do a very good job of making you into a non-person or a ridiculous person.

Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.