Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.

Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.

I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.