Don’t put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family’s life have been enriched by this. I...

Americans see democracy as a remedy for all ills-to be taken three times daily like prescription medicine. It works for them. Ergo – it should work for the world. What America naïvely forgets is that...

There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

I don’t think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I’m sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words.

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.

Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.