Quotes from William C. Anderson

Let's not get so ecstatic we ignore the fiscal situation. As my agent so delicately pointed out, most novels--providing they get published--net the author about enough for a new typewriter ribbon and a quart of tequila in which to drown his sorrows when he receives his royalty statement. You will find precious few novelists listed in Dun and Bradstreet.

Any occupation had to be better than wallowing through a sky filled with damp carbon deposits — the excrement of seven million automobiles.

You saw the race riots in Watts. . . . Do nice people go around burning and looting — and even killing? Not since last night. When our Marines razed a village outside Khe Sanh in North Vietnam.