“Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.”
“Somewhere inside me, a madman raged in his cell, but I chose not to know of that.”
“Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.”
“I must be a masochist to keep putting myself in these situations. I need help. Ineed to see a shrink or be locked in a padded cell or straitjacketed or something.”
“...poking a lump of red Jello that jiggles outrageously, like a breast I once knew. ”
“Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.”