There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.

How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.

The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)

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

Preacher to me: 'A dollar for the Lord, brother?' Me to preacher: 'That's all right, I'm headed his way. I'll give it to him when I see him.'