Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

[Norman Mailer] is against masturbation, he's against homosexuality. He believes that murder is essentially sexual. I think he's rather an anthology of all the darkest American traits.

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

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.