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.

There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year.

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

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.

I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it our ourselves.

The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.