Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.

What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?

The way you write affects what you say.

Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.

I can`t get excited about politics, but I love it as a game. Because what I love in politics - this is very selfish of me, but who cares - what I do love in politics is this ability it has to make you think in new ways.

The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.