I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.

Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery.

What I am saying, I suppose, is that you write as if everyone is dead. Then you face the music. I don't know any other way to keep the teeth sharp and the spirit alive.

Do not speak harshly to a grown-up man. He is old enough to be your father.

The other night while lying on a couch I reviewed the high point of my life and fell asleep!

I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

'Stress' was the catch-all every pamper-pedlar I spoke to used to explain why healthy women feel the need to be regularly patted, petted and preened into a state of babyish beatification.

Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through

I mean everybody's got ex-boyfriends and girlfriends. Everybody's got baggage.

I made mistakes, I drank too much, I smoked some crack some time. What can I say? I made a mistake, I’m human.

I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me.

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.