When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America

At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.

I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it.

I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first rewrite, but some chapters I can't get quite right the third time. There are some I go over and over and over again.

If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.

What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.