So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.

I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.

Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.

Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.