Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.

USA belongs to a handful of men who also control the media. Look at General Electric. It produces nuclear weapons for the Pentagon and also owns the NBC News cable channel, which is a very sophisticated censure apparatus, intrinsic to the system. It's genius. It's like an electronic cage around the nation which blocks information from getting through.

To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.

The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the time they bombed Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, and I felt there something like a foretaste of the end of the world.

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.

I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging.

Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.