If I’d been talking about black trash, I might be lynched. If I was talking about white trash, I’d merely be another torchbearer in an ongoing national lynching.

What's absolutely impossible to prove is the idea of innate and everlasting equality.

Show me pornography which promotes violence against women, and I'll buy it.

My oldest brother was stabbed thirty to forty times and strangled to death with his own belt when I was eight years old. Much of my life has been pockmarked with violence. So I had a natural interest in the topic, along with a strong home-field advantage.

My crazy parents and those crazy Catholic nuns didn't do a good job of forcing me to keep the Ten Commandments, but they kept me forever fixated on the very idea of a taboo.

I'm the only convict who couldn't get into Australia.

In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor that men do.