Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.

One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"

Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.

Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.