Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who….

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems..

This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane..

All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for….

I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steer….

He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent..

Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water..

We were into the Speedway. We'd take a train out to the Speedway where farmers had flatbed trucks with bleachers on them. They'd park in the infield ….

It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It was not the thought that God was cruel that fr….

Love is where you find it..

What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them..

There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time..

There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre..

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a ….

Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe..

If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that re….

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand..

A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights..

If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not….

Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?.

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves..