Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them as possible. I don't like the sight of them. The scale is all wrongs. The heads tend to be too big for the bodies, and the hands and feet are a disaster. They keep falling into things. The nakedness of their bad character! We adults have learned how to disguise our terrible character, but children, well, they are like grotesque drawings of us. They should be neither seen nor heard, and no one must make another one.

A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as we sink slowly, mindlessly, into herstory rather than history because most rapists are men, aren't they?

I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time.

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

I'm a much worse guest than I am a host, and I'm not an awfully good host either. I really like being alone.

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

I don't deny or affirm anything. I'm not very personal.