A great novel is worth one thousand films.

A lot of people consider my books to be straightforward, but I think that I write from atmosphere to atmosphere rather than from event to event.

Oh yes!...The sweet summons of God to man. That's when He calls you up to His arms. And it's the most beautiful thing, a rebirth, a new life. But, just the same I'm in no rush to find out.

I have never - I have never let go of my childhood contacts. My best friends from childhood are still my best friends.

All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)

But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?

Never yawn in front of a lady.

I don't wait till stage to use my sexuality. My zipper's down right now. I mean, I use it all the time.

I'm really fortunate that I've had some mega hits.

God looks with favor at pure, not full, hands.

I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder.

I don't want to be shut out from the truth. If they ban books, they might as well lock us away from the world.

And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?

I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic.