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

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

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 collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.