I am more stupid about some things than others; not equally stupid in all directions; I am not a well-rounded person.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.

Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.

Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.