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

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

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.