I look into my own black heart.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes in experience. But it is what is done with it in his mind, if he is a real writer, that makes his art.

I deny that there's such a thing as a gay person. I deny there's such a thing as a heterosexual person.

USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age.

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.