And so I ask, "Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?" But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers, answers in his weary cryptic way, "Rather think of Sex as Time, and Time as the connection of new circuits.

Mailer's Law: A thing either gets better or it costs more to run it the way it was.

I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.

You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.

You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.