When you cut into the present the future leaks out.

Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.

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