Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance.

You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life.

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.

All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.

That's where Time magazine lives ... way out there on the puzzled, masturbating edge, peering through the keyhole and selling what they see to the big wide world of chamber of commerce voyeurs who support the public prints.

[Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the manager of a sex theater who's forced to leave and flee to the mountains. He falls in love and gets in even more trouble than he was in the sex theater in San Francisco. Most of my stories are tales of anguish, stress and grief.

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.