It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy.

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

The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.

In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.

That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They don’t want to do it. They have become writers out of reasons of ambition. It must be a great strain to them to make marks on a page when they really have nothing much to say, and don’t enjoy doing it. I’m not so sure what I have to say but I certainly enjoy making sentences.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some people practice another thing and that is the way human beings are.