It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.

It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.

I don't think there really is much of a left in America, certainly by European standards even the left is quite right wing here.