Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.

World War III will be triggered off not by suppressed nationalists seeking political independence, as happened the first time around when the Serbs at Sarajevo shot the heir to the Austrian throne, but by some semiliterate, whacked-out "loner" who lobs a rocket into a nuclear arsenal in order to impress Brooke Shields.

--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.