The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.

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.

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly and pervasive ignorance.

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.