In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single...

Love is a fan club with only two fans.

Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is the business of surprise. I never know what is coming next. The phrase that sounds in the head changes when it appears on the page. Then I start probing it with a pen, finding new meanings. Sometimes I burst out laughing at what is happening as I twist and turn sentences. Strange business, all in all. One never gets to the end of it. That’s why I go on, I suppose. To see what the next sentences I write will be.