nothing is more like truth than a lie, don't you find?

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

It's this subconscious part of me that knows just how far to go, and suddenly, everything bursts into flames.

We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.