Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.

Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal; if they were not, no one would perform them.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

People like to re-invent you, according to cliché. There are a lot of stores about me that really apply only to Capote or Mailer or somebody else. Everything is a mish mash.

What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.

U.S. certainly are not warlike. We don't want that. We want to make money, which I always thought was one of the most admirable things about Americans.