The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.

I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but if at a neighborhood level violence is necessary, I'm all for violence. It's the only thing Americans understand.

Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that I can't always distinguish. You see, we neither love nor hate in my world. We simply have hobbies.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.