I'm not against anything that anybody might want to try to pull off in fiction. Fiction writing has to, at least, always represent a possibility of absolute freedom.

Interviewing is in some ways the art of memory.

Donald Trump is seriously dark and disturbing. You can't just dismiss it as one more example of American pop culture grotesque.

Difficulty is only a matter of the willingness to do.

If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!

Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.

The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

There's nothing like turning on the radio and listening to the high-speed chase that you're leading police on!

We like to think of life as a constant ... Yet it can be ended in a heartbeat.

Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade.

Love is like Pi: natural, irrational, and very important.

It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.

I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.