There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.

The way you write affects what you say.

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.

I hate everything which is not in myself.

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a life which was a trifle too pointless and a trifle too full of guilt and my gullet was close to nausea with the empty promises of an empty liberal center.

I'm a great believer in the hereafter, in karma, in reincarnation. It does make sense. I believe that God is not just a law-giver, but a creative artist. The greatest of all. And what characterises artists is that they want to redo their work. Maybe it didn't come off perfectly, so they want to see it done again, and improved. Reincarnation is a way for God to improve his earlier works.