Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.

American Rifleman and Field & Stream had ads for "varmint guns." Another varmint was a ground hog because a horse would be going along and he'd stick his foot in a ground hog hole and break his leg. So we were trying to prevent that, too. But we finally scared ourselves. We didn't realize we were nuts.

I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer.

Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.