"The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait."

"Once after a dinner party, Gregory Peck and I drove Fred Astaire home. Fred lived in a colonial house that …"

"They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not pain…"

"Neither economic liberalism nor Keynesianism can conceptualise vocation, virtue or labour value as economic…"

"We simply must find ways to see each other more clearly. And part of that has to involve collecting and sha…"

"Outside support has always been a danger for the smooth working of the governments. If the President assert…"

"If you kill one person, you're prosecuted. If you kill ten people, you're famous; if you kill a quarter-of-…"