God bless little children while they're still too young to hate.

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

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass.

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

Sinclair Lewis was asked one time to give a talk to class of students about writing. When he got there he asked the class, Do you people want to be writers?and they all said yes. Then Lewis said, Why the hell aren't you at home writing?