The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.

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

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.

I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.

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

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

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.