It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.