I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misinterpret things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it! - Don't turn the light on!

I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.