Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it.

Our most noted satirists are true columnists and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented exposé.

I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.

I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.

Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.