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.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay taxes

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.