I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.

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.

My mother says: 'People who suffer from anxiety are usually those with the most vivid imaginations.

Even when I was caught in the web, I didn't give up hope. And as you see, I was right.

For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.

A chance is what you take before you think about it. A calculated risk is what you take after you have evaluated all possible factors and have determined that risk

They always say the hottest love has the coldest end.

Some Democrats deserve to be criticized.

A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.

No other virtue makes man more equal to the angels, than the imitation of their way of life.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.