Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being.

Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized.

Someplace between apathy and anarchy is the stance of the thinking human being; he does embrace a cause, he does take a position, and can't allow it to become business as usual. Humanity is our business.

Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.

I suppose we think euphemistically that all writers write because they have something to say that is truthful and honest and pointed and important. And I suppose I subscribe to that, too. But God knows when I look back over thirty years of professional writing, I'm hard-pressed to come up with anything that's important. Some things are literate, some things are interesting, some things are classy, but very damn little is important.

Infinitely more taboos, on television.

We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.