Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live.

Shooting is my principal pastime.

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

Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them ... not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.

A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.

The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers