Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.

I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.

If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?

I don't want you to describe to me—not ever—what you were doing to that poor boy to make him sound like that; but if you ever do it again, please cover his mouth with your hand.

What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by.