The First Mistake Of Art Is To

The Ultimate Sin Of Any Performer Is Contempt For The Audience.

I've Always Believed The New Left Is Rank.

The Whole Point Of American Culture Is To Pick Up Any Old Piece Of Trash And Make It Shine With More Facets Than The Hope Diamond.

Rock'n'roll Is An Attitude, It's Not A Musical Form Of A Strict Sort. It's Way Of Doing Things, Of Approaching Things. Writing Can Be Rock'n'roll, Or A Movie Can Be Rock'n'roll. It's A Way Of Living Your Life.

I'll Probably Never Produce A Masterpiece, But So What? I Feel I Have A Sound Aborning, Which Is My Own, And That Sound If Erratic Is Still My Greatest Pride, Because I Would Rather Write Like A Dancer Shaking My Ass To Boogaloo Inside My Head, And Perhaps Reach Only Readers Who Like To Use Books To Shake Their Asses, Than To Be Or Write For The Man Cloistered In A Closet Somewhere Reading Aeschylus While This Stupefying World Careens Crazily Past His Waxy Windows Toward Its Last Raving Sooty Feedback Pirouette.