The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.

Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.

Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.

Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.

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.