I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.
If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
I'm not much of a club goer because every time I do go I get in trouble.
The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.
I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through.
Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.
I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.
The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!
Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.
Ever see a little kid walking around talking to himself? I'm the same way.
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
But I think the record will actually come from tapes that are not yet recorded.
It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.
When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.