All my life I have fought corruption.

There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.

This body is wasted, full of sickness, and frail; this heap of corruption breaks to pieces, life indeed ends in death.