Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so but behind locked doors there are usually high emotions running.

For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.

When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.