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

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.

In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book.

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.

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.

I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own.