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.

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

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

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

She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world.

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.