If Critics Want To Help Me, Let

I Hate The Telephone. I Think The Lowest Circle Of Hell Is Reserved For Alexander Graham Bell.

Life Is Unjust, People Can Be Cruel, And Yet If You Harden Your Heart, You Will Lose What Little Love There Is In This World.

I'm Beginning To Feel That The Real Endangered Species On Planet Earth Are Not The Whales And The Elephants But Those Of Us Who Can Laugh At The World And Ourselves. ... I Fear The Dry Turn Of The American Mind, This Focus On The Literal, As Much As I Fear Our Capacity For Self-destruction. We've Become Hagridden By Facts, Obsessed With Product Instead Of Process. Where's The Energetic Wit, The Looney Outlook, The Frivolity, The Lightness Of Comforting Laughter? It Has Become Fashionable To Know And Unfashionable To Feel, And You Can't Really Laugh If You Can't Feel.

It Really Doesn't Take Brains To Be A Politician As Much As It Takes Stomach. Both Would Be Nice, But In America We Have Accepted Diminishing Returns In This Arena.

If You Don't Like My Book, Write Your Own. If You Don't Think You Can Write A Novel, That Ought To Tell You Something. If You Think You Can, Do. No Excuses. If You Still Don't Like My Novel, Find A Book You Do Like. Life Is Too Short To Be Miserable. If You Do Like My Novels, I Commend Your Good Taste.