I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

I'm a great believer in the hereafter, in karma, in reincarnation. It does make sense. I believe that God is not just a law-giver, but a creative artist. The greatest of all. And what characterises artists is that they want to redo their work. Maybe it didn't come off perfectly, so they want to see it done again, and improved. Reincarnation is a way for God to improve his earlier works.

Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.