“Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?” — William S. Burroughs

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.

No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought.

Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.