When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

