Friends meddle with my plan of work. I resent people dropping in for a chat.

I've had very little sex. I like my Scotch, but I've never been drunk.

I discovered that a diplomat's life is largely entertaining and meeting people. At the end of the day there's nothing. So I gave up.

When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.

I am not a serious person. I don't claim any profundity for any of my writing.

I admit I have no forgiveness. If anyone is ever rude to me, however much they may try to make up, I can't bring myself to re-establish the old [connection]. And when they drop me, I have a sense of relief.

I was never a cardholder. But I was leftist in the sense that I voted communist.