You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.

Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.

I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.

What memories for mud to have.

It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.

We were into the Speedway. We'd take a train out to the Speedway where farmers had flatbed trucks with bleachers on them. They'd park in the infield and we'd sit on those. Our heroes weren't the drivers, they were the pit crews. That's because we were local, and we knew what was going on.

Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they are made of.