The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.

If you're going to be a writer you should sit down and write in the morning, and keep it up all day, every day. Charles Bukowski, no matter how drunk he got the night before or no matter how hungover he was, the next morning he was at his typewriter. Every morning. Holidays, too. He'd have a bottle of whiskey with him to wake up with, and that's what he believed. That's the way you became a writer: by writing. When you weren't writing, you weren't a writer.

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

Today America's on the wrong side of the world revolution. What I mean by that is, the world revolution is the people's revolution, the liberation movements in all the third world countries, which when everyone tries to get started the U.S. stops.

Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.