These little books I write, such as The End of Freedom, about the post-9/11 political climate in the United States, sell in the hundreds of thousands of copies. Whereas, I hear novels on marriage are not selling. This is perhaps not the judgment of God, but it is certainly that of history.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible.

I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.

I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but if at a neighborhood level violence is necessary, I'm all for violence. It's the only thing Americans understand.

Since nothing is free, to each his price.

The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.