I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.

Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

You can only go to places that you will let yourself go.

It is a lie that America is racist

You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

I lost my way for a long time.

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.

Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it.