Minds were made for blowing.

Being able to create your own work, being able to indulge your own fantasies is so much better than journalism, so much more fulfilling than journalism, to me, that as long as I can continue to write fiction, I shall.

You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.

What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was.

In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more than chimpanzees with bulldozers, baboons with big bombs.