It was unavoidable, my writing. I feel I had no choice in the matter, no more than I had about an unfortunate bone structure and a healthy head of hair.

The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.

There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.

I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.

The part we play is not as we want it, but as we are made-with the genitals God gave us.

I've finally learned not to want things I cannot have.

Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need.

None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.

To fear the bourgeois is bourgeois.

Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls?

Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes.

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.

Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.

If you do not change, you can become extinct !

What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.