The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.