It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.

The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.

Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.