Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.

Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.

Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.

Morals are private. Decency is public.