Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever.

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions.

I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery.

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or to get money for having sex with someone who does not appeal to you-incidentally, the basis of half the marriages of my generation.

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.