I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even possibly a war crime to rank with Nazi genocide.

Enlightened legislation or enlightened social activity of whatever kind, does play into the hands of people with agendas of their own. If you legalize euthanasia, you provide a field day for people who like killing other people.

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

If I don't write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream.

I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!

I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves.

Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.