My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.

You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.

How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.

Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.