The big show is inside my head.

I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes.

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

Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.

Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths.

The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.

When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, "It is done." People did not like it here.