Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.

I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography. I never knew what was going to come up next.

There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.

There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.

Wake up and ponder the future

There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.