It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.

I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners tells you it's time to get your gold watch, and no physical claim is made on you like an athlete or an actress. So I try to plug along on the theory that I can still do it. I still keep trying to produce prose, and some poetry, in the hope that I can find something to say about being alive, this country, but generally the human condition.

American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.

Our tears fatten upon our memories of joy.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.