A cult is a religion with no political power. - Tom Wolfe

"The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it."

"Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, things like that. That's about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness."

"Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live."

"(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."