If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

I don't deny or affirm anything. I'm not very personal.

When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'

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

I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.

If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.

I spend most of my time in California. I feel I am fueled by rage and by the political climate there. I am angry most of the time when I am there, which might be unbearable for someone else, but for me it's fuel for my writing.