A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.

Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible.

It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

The music of the Stones pounds the air like the amplified pulse of my erection.