You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, "Well, so-and-so will like this," which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.

I'm in favor of sexual encounters.

Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting to organize their country in their own way politically. This happens to be pretty much the opinion of western Europe and the other parts of the world.

Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.

Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

Sex was a great no-no for Americans, so that was obviously an attraction to the writers, and since sex is a great part of most people's lives, it's a great subject.