Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.

Something lurked inside the truth.

I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.

I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.