I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.

To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.

Take a shot in front of D.L. Probing for a vein in my dirty bare foot... Junkies have no shame... They are impervious to the repugnance of others. It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido... The junky's shame disappears with his nonsexual sociability which is also dependent on libido.

You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.