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I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I’ve been much happier unmarried than married.
In university they don’t tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don’t.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.
What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, ‘Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,’ reducing it to a simple formula.
September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn’t that terrible.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It’s a cruel and evil government.
Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.