Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid.

For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.

I don't know why, but I always feel a kind of necessity to write things that are beyond acceptance, that are too offensive or something. For people to read them and say, Ha-ha-ha, very funny. No, we can't print that.

An angel has no memory.

Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.