I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word - it is short, sharp, and abusive.

Writing is manual labor of the mind - like laying pipe.

Being exposed to the enlisted Army was an eye-opener. I thought everyone was like me, but the enlisted Army is a constituency of the dispossessed.

There are no new facts about the Kennedys, only new attitudes, a literature that, like the automobile industry, puts new bodies on old chassis.

'Horse thunder' is what I call the sound of galloping hooves.

They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.