One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.

The CIA's research program is described in a book called "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."

He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.

I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.

When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.