What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'

Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.

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.

America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.