I take it for granted that there's a side of me that loves public action, and there's another side of me that really wants to be alone and work and write. And I've learned to alternate the two as matters develop.

A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius.

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.

A high church for the true mediocre.

You have the right to speak your mind.