Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we-monkeys? If you expect people to be responsible for their children, you have to give them the right to choose whether or not to have children. What are you people thinking of? You're not only crazy! You're ogres!

I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.

I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.

Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean - make sure they know what they mean!

Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either

So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.

The characters in my novels, from the very first one, are always on some quixotic effort of attempting to control something that is uncontrollable - some element of the world that is essentially random and out of control.