The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as well tell you, I lost some readership, because the profound audience felt somehow bothered by my too easy manner.