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

I like Italy. I was always at home there, it's a marvelous place to become invisible. Nobody bothers you and nobody is interested in you and I find that very good for work.

Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.

Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did.

Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex; many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is part of our nature and not worth fretting about.