I've never been a teacher in my life.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end.

There was an American girl, Priscilla Johnson. She worked for U.P. in Moscow. She knew [John] Kennedy, and she met [Lee Harvey] Oswald around the same time I did. But I can tell you some­thing else almost as curious.

When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around.

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.