Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

- Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer again. As long as the roots are not severed, all is well and all be well.

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.