A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.

I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere!

There’s no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There’s no other way.

I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or if I hadn't been the offspring of Jews.