The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.

You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

My mind gets into a verbal mode.