The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity; of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything.

Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art.

To have an interest in both sexes is equally normal. Whether it's practiced or not is something else. Some do. Some don't.

Astronauts: rotarians in outer space.

The worst that can be said about pornography is that it leads not to anti-social acts but to the reading of more pornography

Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes in experience. But it is what is done with it in his mind, if he is a real writer, that makes his art.

No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels.