For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.

Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.