The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.

When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day.

Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?

A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.