Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.

Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.

Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.

Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.

So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.

Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.