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

Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.

I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.

I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.

Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal; if they were not, no one would perform them.

Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs.

I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track.