Most novelists write about twisted lives.

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors.

I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf.

America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn't that fabulous?