“It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).”

“Being in a band is just like being married. The children are the songs and the sex is playing live onstage.”

“He is a good man, and I don't like Thomas More and his band of heretic hunters. A man should have a right to believe what a man wants to believe. (p. 337)”

“All bands eventually break up because of one or more of the four P's: power, property, prestiege, pussy.”

“I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them."[Letter to Herbert Putnam; in: Waters, Edward N.: Herbert Putnam: the tallest little man in the world; Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 33:2 (April 1976), p. 171]”

“Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.”