A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

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.

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

There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the real thoughts and impulses which remain hidden.

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

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

It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.