It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

One of my earliest memories as a reader - I don't know how old I was, quite young - was a poem of his, called "Fog," and I remember the first verse, "The fog comes / on little cat feet".

why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?

For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.

Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.