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

If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

The beautiful disease and The government falls along the weed rooms flesh along the weed government.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

[Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.