So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.

There are days when I'll wake up and think, oh, I've really been something. You know, it won't be the same without me. And then there are days when I wake up and I say, 'Don't kid yourself. Your contribution was minimal. You changed very little. Everything you hated prospered'.

The great power in America is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. We`re run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?

There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles

You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.