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" I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then. "

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" It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. "

" The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted. "

" I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar - and not dissimilar - sphere of operations. "

" Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing. "

" Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60. "

" Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing. "

" Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. "

" Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again. "

" Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences. "

" Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East. "

" After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets. "

" Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent. "

" I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place. "

" My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.' "

" I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. "

" All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world. "

" Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military. "

" Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil. "

" Didn't George Washington say, 'He who controls Afghanistan will carry New Jersey?' "

" The unfed mind devours itself. "

" Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things. "

" Like most readers, I tend to skip the acknowledgements at the beginnings of books: the 'To-My-Wife-Without-Whose-Invaluable-Assistance' kind of thing. "

" That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president. "

" In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative. "

" A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive. "

" I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch. "

" For every Scott Fitzgerald concerned with the precise word and the selection of relevant incident, there are a hundred American writers, many well-regarded, who appear to believe that one word is just as good as another and that everything which occurs to them is worth putting down. "

" To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy. "

" We're not a democracy. "

" A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact. "