I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.

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

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

My novels are all ideas.

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

Beds last on an average much longer than marriages.

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