Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.

It doesn't matter how big the body, it's what you do with it.

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55.

He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.

You hope that people read your book and say "Yes, this is the way it is or could be." But then you have no way of knowing until the reader reads the book. Actually, the critical response doesn't worry me. I've had very few reviews that have upset me.