Life is unresolved, confusing, bewildering, puzzling, ambiguous. You don't really know what's going to happen. The future is uncertain for everybody.

I never have an alter ego in the movies. That's a fiction that the press has made up over the years, and it's fun to write that. It gives them something to write.

But it was I - yes I - who discovered the link between excessive masturbation and entry into politics!

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.

It's all through the actors; I cannot write in that idiom

I heard that Commentary and Dissent had merged and formed Dysenery.

The heart is a very, very resilient little muscle. It really is.