How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books.

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

It's all sex for me. Politics is sex. Race is sex. It's the novel. It's the novel!

The novel is final form; it's the ultimate individual final form. Television and motion pictures never get there. You'd be fabulous to think that something you write is even going to be filmed. I give it the best shot of which I'm capable. But it's more a payday for me. And if I didn't have alimony and the full-time assistant.

Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.

My mother and I will continue on some level that I havent determined yet. I think my mothers a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career.

I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life.