Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die?

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

I'll tell you what I really think about politicians. The other night I watched some politicians on television talking about Vietnam. I wanted very much to burst through the screen with a flame thrower and burn their eyes out and their balls off and then inquire from them how they would assess the action from a political point of view.