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

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.

A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.

King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.