Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.

When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.

The way you write affects what you say.

Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.

The great power in America is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. We`re run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?

I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing is existential - some fights are better than others.

Boredom slays more of existence than war.