I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.

I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.

Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.

The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.