I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

My novels are all ideas.

There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.

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

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

The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the challenge. More often than not, she will lose her virginity to some filthy lowlife in what proves to be the first step in an irrevocable decline.

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.