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 don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

One's life has many compartments.

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

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

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 believe the US is a truly monstrous force in the world, now off the leash for obvious reasons.