Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.

If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.

Each man creates god in his own image.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.

It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.

For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.