I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.

Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children's minds be twisted by evil gods whose fantastic origin is in those barbaric tribes who feared death and lightning, who feared life. That's it: life is the villain to to those who preach reward in death, through grace and eternal bliss, or through dark revenge.

I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery.

Always a godfather, never a god.

If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.

Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.