I take it for granted that there's a side of me that loves public action, and there's another side of me that really wants to be alone and work and write. And I've learned to alternate the two as matters develop.

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.

Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

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

If God is all good, then He is not all powerful. If God is all powerful, then He is not all good. I am a disbeliever is the omnipotence of God because of the Holocaust. But for 35 years, I have been believing that He is doing the best he can.

The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture

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.