The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

It all comes down to who does the dishes.

Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.

When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.

Part of living, part of becoming a wise man or a wise woman, is to get to that point where you can have a friend for whom you are genuinely happy when he or she has a success. That's tough. Very few people get to that point. With writers it's next to impossible. You can't really bless a writer who's as good as yourself.

Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment.

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.