It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry
All of my books come from pain.
I'm a painter in sound.
Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
There is a lushness to how my mind works.
Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.
Of course The Beach Boys will be camp.
Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.
The first sentence of a book is a promise.
The Army was my bread and butter.
You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
It's all been satirized for your protection.
Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
I've had plenty of big hits and plenty of big misses.
I don't want to be a reality retro star.
