I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.

Hunger is good discipline.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together