Well chaps first I'd like to say a few vile things more or less at random, not only because it is expected of me but also because I enjoy it.

Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced.

Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.

I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.

Write about what you're afraid of.

How can you be alienated without first having been connected?

There is no moment that exceeds in beauty that moment when one looks at a woman and finds that she is looking at you in the same way that you are looking at her. The moment in which she bestows that look that says, "Proceed with your evil plan, sumbitch.