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

Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.

My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure giving me enough energy to live.

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.

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.

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