Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?

For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste time on something you don't believe in yourself.

Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.

Ask the dust on the road! Ask the Joshua trees standing alone where the Mojave begins. Ask them about Camilla Lopez, and they will whisper her name.

I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living

Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths I once believed and now they were beliefs I felt were myths.