 Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie. |
| Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled. |
| Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. |
| I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others. |
| I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. |
| The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original. |
| We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away. |
| Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement. |
| If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. |
| I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. |
| I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month. |
| Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text. |
| Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. |
| Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate. |
