Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.

Life is an X-rated soap opera.

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.

You live your life at the time you live it -- you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening.

Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.

I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second.

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.