You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply become what I seemingly must become. I am six feet two and weigh nearly two hundred pounds and am badly coordinated, except when I swim. All that borrowed meat does the writing. In the water I am beautiful.

Powers Hapgood had just come from court because there was some kind of dust-up on a picket line. The judge was so curious about him - coming from a rich family - why he would choose to live as he had. I guess you know what his answer was ..."The Sermon on the Mount, sir." That's important.

Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.