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

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

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

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.

My novels are all ideas.

Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they are not cruel to her, but it is as if she were invisible, no eyes follow her as she walks. People feel uncomfortable when they are with her. They find it easier to ignore her. A girl who is exceptionally beautiful, on the other hand, who has something which too far surpasses the customary seductive freshness of adolescence, appears somehow unreal. Great beauty seems invariably to portend some tragic fate.