It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last.
All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.
Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.
I tend to think in dramatic terms. In life, there may be an actual drama, but it would be the fictionalized, imagined drama that engaged me.
The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.
Long ago I'd said that I am "fascinated by the phantasmagoria of human personality" - this is perhaps even truer now than years ago.