All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

I really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto.

The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between the fantastic and the drab seems too narrow.

Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.