If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.

If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humorists in the Bible.

And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?

A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more.

Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.

The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself.

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.