I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.

New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?

I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.

A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.

The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal angst and anomie, cascades of short stories and rivers of novels obsessed with the nuances of domestic relationships - suburban hanky-panky - chic boutique shopping mall literary soap opera. When they do speak out on matters of controversy they attack not the evils of our time but fellow writers who may insist on complaining.

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.