So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.

It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to destroy.

I read a lot of books for information, like doctor books, spy books. . . .

[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.

The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: "Wouldn't you?" Yes you would. You would lie, cheat, inform on your friends, steal, do anything to satisfy total need. Because you would be in a state of total sickness, total possession, and not in a position to act in any other way. Dope fiends are sick people who cannot act other than they do. A rabid dog cannot choose but bite.

Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.