A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.

Sexual normalcy and abnormality are personal and subjective concepts. What is unnatural to one [person] is natural to another. What is abnormal under certain conditions may be completely normal under others. And, in any event, to be different is not necessarily to be wrong, or to be sick.

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best.