Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists. I believe my country is beginning to resemble a theocracy. Using television, the evangelists raise appalling amounts of money which they then invest in the election of mentally disabled obscurantists.

Astronauts: rotarians in outer space.

To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.

There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.

I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.