The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

I hate everything which is not in myself.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

You do not really wish to hear more of the Battle of Kadesh. Let me say only that human fat, gorged in considerable quantity, has an intoxicating effect. I became ... drunk.

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

I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.