Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.

It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.

Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.

Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.

It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two.

It’s better to look at the sky than live there

I met Lee Harvey Oswald, in Moscow just after he defected. One night I was having dinner with a friend, an Italian newspaper cor­respondent, and when he came by to pick me up he asked me if I'd mind going with him first to talk to a young American defector, one Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was staying at the Metropole, an old Czarist hotel just off Kremlin Square.