My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

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

The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.

I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.

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?