It's just as political, what you do in the bedroom is just as political as what you do in public.

I really believe there is something in the nature of a democracy that naturally leads people to distrust the government, to assume because a democracy is built by people just like themselves that there must be secret plots and cover-ups and wizards behind the scenes running the machine.

The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them.

I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something?

There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.

I was a very scared child.

I'm convinced I was the only kid ever who had a Death on the Nile [1978] movie poster and a Murder on the Orient Express [1974] movie poster on his bedroom walls.