Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy. I can't say they're wrong.

Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.

When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.

Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.