Life Is A State Of Mind.

People Say, "well, You Went On Television, It Enlarged Your Readership." It Did Not At All, Not At All. I Might As Well Tell You, I Lost Some Readership, Because The Profound Audience Felt Somehow Bothered By My Too Easy Manner.

Mapplethorpe Presented The Body As A Sexual Object, Separating It From The Humanity Of The Person. He Added Nothing To Photography As A Medium. I Hold His Work In Low Regard.

I Collect Human Relationships Very Much The Way Others Collect Fine Art.

I Don't Fret Over Lost Time - I Can Always Use The Situations In A Novel.

Gatherings And, Simultaneously, Loneliness Are The Conditions Of A Writer's Life.