Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

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

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

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

I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.

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

You don't die in the United States, you underachieve.