There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.
Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.
Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.
I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.
One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.