A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue, and not really get them.

I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

[Steven Sebring] presence was also nice for my children, who, having just lost their father, quite naturally craved warm male attention. They gravitated to him right away.

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.