The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

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?)

I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.