You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

I invented the historical spy novel.

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

I read very little contemporary anything.

I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.