I'd prefer to include sex scenes alongside the adventure scenes and everyday-life scenes, as if they were all part of the same thing. Which of course they are. Sex is not discrete from the rest of our existence.

The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.

Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world.

The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

It wasn't so much all the sex that robbed me of my moral bearings, but all the narcotics. I must say, there's something about opium that goes very well with lesbianism.

Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I switched to a career as a writer, I would try to listen to music, but if the songs had lyrics they would get in the way of the words I was trying to write. So I switched to listening to purely instrumental pieces.