I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.

Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.

Everything I write has a precedent in truth.