It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?

Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.

Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.