I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself.

In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire.

I can't think of anybody worse to live with.

Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.