I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.

The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and will die of sexual exertions in the arms of his mistress.

Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.

A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.

Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.