As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for evil on certain definite people and punish the guilty. I’m still going through the motions.

I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.

The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.