I love to write about sex. You just have to make it idiosyncratic. You have to have a strong comprehension of your characters, and write it from their point of view. It's really fun. It's not erotic.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

Americans took a great deal too much credit for creating wealth, when most of the time they had really just been living off natural bounty unprecedented in the history of the world.

Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.