The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.

Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe.

Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.

I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents.

I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe. I am quite sincere about some of the things which people take very lightly, and almost insultingly unconcerned about some of the things which people take most seriously. In short, I am basically antisocial: certainly not to an alarming degree , but just more so than I appear to be.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.