Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.

The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.