I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.

In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

It is important not to trust people too much.

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.