Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

I never wanted to be a pundit.