“I didn't set out to be a troublesome writer, but if that's what I've been, I am totally unrepentant.”

“Man, to put it in Swiftian terms Swift could never utter, is the cancer of the planet!”

“I remember going [in 1939] to see ... a film in which Richard Dix played Sam Houston. When the Alamo came around, I jumped up in my seat shouting ‘Death to the gringos! Viva México!’”