He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.

There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.

On the day they dropped the bomb Frank had a tablespoon and a Mason jar. What he was doing was spooning different kinds of bugs into the jar and making them fight....I can remember other bug fights we staged later on...They won't fight unless you keep shaking the jar.

I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't.

I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell and truly understand.

We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.

Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.