I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

You have to be lonely to be a writer

Movie people are possessed by demons, but a very low form of demons.

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Dont trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.