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My actinic keratosis is a result of the triumphalism of the beach. The sun exacerbates it.

A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.

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The Internet doesn't like you to learn too much about explosives.

A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic.

Arabic is very twisting, very beautiful. The call to prayer is quite haunting; it almost makes you a believer on the spot.

I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality.

I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession.

I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and I said to myself, 'Hey, I'm a professional writer now.'

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded...

I still want to give my public, such as it is, a book a year.

I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age.

When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.

What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.

To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.

I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being.

I never really made a choice to live in America, so I should be aware of the social strata outside of the ones that I may live in.

My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.

A person believes various things at various times, even on the same day.

In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must remain in the dark. An invented figure like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary emerges fully...

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

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