Nothing Bad Can Happen To A Writer.

Writing Turns You Into Somebody Who's Always Wrong. The Illusion That You May Get It Right Someday Is The Perversity That Draws You On. What Else Could? As Pathological Phenomena Go, It Doesn't Completely Wreck Your Life.

Each Book Starts From Ashes.

Satire Is Moral Outrage Transformed Into Comic Art.

Unless One Is Inordinately Fond Of Subordination, One Is Always At War.

For A Pure Sense Of Being Tumultuously Alive, You Can't Beat The Nasty Side Of Existence.