American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.

About all you can do in life is be who you are.

When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.

The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.