the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment.

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.

I'm still an obsessive personality, and I still think I'm right, and I still believe my literary balls hang far lower than nearly anyone else's alive.

The idea that the reader is important enough to me that I'd tailor my words to either please or offend them always seems amusingly alien to me.

It's not exactly courageous to be an anti-racist these days; a hundred years ago, it was.

I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.

When I see two women kissing, my only physical reaction is a strong desire to vomit in both of their mouths.