My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.

The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.

Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.

For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.

[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.