(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

I reckon it’s true what they say that good begets good and bad begets bad. The evil men do lives on after them, but what good they done gets buried with their bones.

This and this and this.

It is The Action That We are Taking NOWThat will Determine our FUTURE Lives

Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

Better to build orphanages than prisons.

Be yourself, you’ll be a lot happier.

Human speculation is no match for divine revelation.

Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.

Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.