When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'

If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.

There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, "Well, so-and-so will like this," which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.

I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.

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

I have been saying for the some time now that America has only one party - the property party. It's the party of big corporation, the party of money. It has two right wings; one is Democrat and the other is Republican.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.