I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

Nobody really lives in the present.

To be a classic, a novel should be original.

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.