This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would blame his aura.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Only when the clock stops does time come to life

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.