Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara.

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.

Governments are based pincipally on force and deception. Democratic governments are based chiefly on deception, other governments on force. And democratic governments, if you get too uppity, give up on the deception and resort to brute force, as a lot of us found out in the sixites. Those who didn't find out in the sixites will find out in the near future because we're going to have a rerun.

I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.