The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no'.

You see we adults have learned how to disguise our terrible characters but a child... well, it's like a grotesque drawing of us. They should be neither seen nor heard. And no one must make another one.

I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.

What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.

I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it.

People like to re-invent you, according to cliché. There are a lot of stores about me that really apply only to Capote or Mailer or somebody else. Everything is a mish mash.

There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.