If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.

The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.

Given certain known factors in an equation and the equation comprising a situation of absolute need - any form of need - you can predict the results. Leave a sick junkie in the back room of a drugstore and only one result is possible.

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

Well, "disgusting" doesn't refer to the books but to the subjective reaction of the person making the complaint. I don't think that anything is disgusting per se. These words "disgusting" and "filthy," etc., have prevented us from undertaking any scientific experimentation in sexual matters.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change.