I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.

[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]

Cormac McCarthy

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Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!

Robert A. Heinlein

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