One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.

No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.

I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.

I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.

My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.