If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!

A song is a poem set to music.

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.

Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.