One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

The act of composition is a series of discoveries.

I have been everywhere because I don't know what I'm looking for.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.

The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.

It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.