Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.

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

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

Freedom begins between the ears.