CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.

I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that I led in Rome and the classical library at the America Academy.

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.

I'm devoted to promiscuity, and always have been. I believe the more you do, the better it is for you. I'm a great health nut, and sex is, I think, absolutely marvelous for the whole system; tones you up.