Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart

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

The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past.

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

The true religion of America has always been America.

Dying can't be all that difficult-up to now everyone has managed to do it.

So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.