A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.

If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.

We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.

My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer." "What's that?" "You have to find out what caused it.

I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

I told you the one change we would make in the initial start level of the football pressure, but that's really about it.

If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to - follow a little closer.

Sometimes indifference can be so erotic. I think the people who are most dismissive of you get the most of your attention.

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.

Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?

Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship.

I value my reputation. I work hard to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.

The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject.