I'm sure that being sober all these years accounts for my ill humor.

Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.

Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.

Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.

I wish that real estate were cheaper and clothes were more expensive.

What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.

When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree.