What I Don't Write Is As Important

If You Just Sit There, And You're A Writer, You're Bound To Write Crap. A Lot Of American Writing Is Crap. And A Lot Of American Writers Are Professionals.

The Families Of Rabbits Or Woodchucks Will Eat The Salad Greens Just Before They Are Ready To Be Picked; I Plot Ways To Kill These Animals But Can Never Bring Myself To Do It.

Writing Is Not A Profession. It's A Calling. It's Almost Holy.

When I Start To Write Something, I Suppose I Want It To Change Me, To Make Me Into Something Not Myself.

A Tourist Is An Ugly Human Being.