We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.

A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

The music of the Stones pounds the air like the amplified pulse of my erection.

I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone wishes would go away. They're the embarrassments to decorum and good taste.

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.