I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where a very antiliterary literature was emerging - Kenneth Patchen and others. I kind of believed what Nietzsche said, that nothing not written in your blood is worth reading; it's just more pollution of the airwaves.

When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

There is one thing I know about creative conflict: once my argument is exhausted, I am not going to be unhappy whether it moves in my direction or away.

I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

The fuel for the sports fan is the ability to have private theories.