I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult book, and then making up my own mind.

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

The past was so past it hurt.

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

If you continue to hit your head against the wall, don’t be surprised if your head hurts.

Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope.

In protesting for your rights in any form you may, but it's only good, If they can understand your problems and feelings and not only to judge you.

There is power in prayer. When men work, they work. but when men pray, God works.

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wanted to do since I was little. I'm doing it now and I couldn't be happier.

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

God knows how ardently I wish I had ten lives.

The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.

The people who know me, the people who see the passion I have for this game and the respect for it, they know that I don't cut any corners in the way I approach golf.