All a person can do in this life is gather about him his integrity, his imagination, and his individuality – and with these ever with him, out front and in sharp focus, leap into the dance of experience.

Me? I stand for uncertainty, insecurity, bad taste, fun, and things that go boom in the night.

Cries for help are frequently inaudible.

Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.

The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.

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.

Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.