I think the sense of belonging does give you a certain amount of mental satisfaction.

No one has invented a condom for the pen yet. My pen is still sexy.

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

Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris whereas a king who wields the sceptre by day should have his sleep disturbed by nightmares of rebellion and assassination.

I don't want to be cremated, I want to be buried. I don't believe in wasting wood and I feel that one should give back to the earth.

I haven't any close friends. Friendship needs time to interact, sit down, gossip. I don't have that time.

I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist].