The Americans only like things they can label, even if it kills them. Think of those poor Latin American writers. Some of them are very good. But the "magical realism" label has absolutely ruined them. The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.

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

Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not affairs of the state. A government does not exist to control the citizens. When it does, it is a tyranny, and must be fought. The tree of liberty, Jefferson warned us, must be refreshed with the blood of tyrants and patriots.

Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay taxes

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

Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.

I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way.