I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

I'm devoted to promiscuity, and always have been. I believe the more you do, the better it is for you. I'm a great health nut, and sex is, I think, absolutely marvelous for the whole system; tones you up.

The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.

My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.

Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.