“In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.”

“When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.”

“When God opens a door, you have to take His hand and walk through it. Even when you have doubts.”

“When it comes to relationships, I find it best to have two feet out the door”

“Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old song. They fit my lifestyle with newly arriving butcher/censors every month. Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with censorship and book-burning in the future, write to tell me of this exquisite irony...”

“When the corruption seems to go all the way to the end of the world, the only good approach is through the front door with a gun in each hand.”