“Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting...” — Walter Annenberg Quote

“Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.”

“It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.”

“I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.”

“Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.”

“When I left Haiti, I was eight. I went to the Congo where my father was working. The only images that I had were the images of Tarzan. That's what I thought Africa was. Of course, the first day I arrived there, I thought I would see a lot of savages dancing on the tarmac.”

“When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.”