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.

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.

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.

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

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.

Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.

The world is not interested in titles and positions, all it wants is your creative mind and the genuinity of the work of your hands.

The most and best of us depend on others

Anyone can make a living, but it takes an extraordinary person to make a living while creating a strong positive impact.

I was between them, and as the tension sparked, I felt like a small rodent trapped between mastodons.

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

Don't let your fear grow bigger than your faith.

The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.

Quote of the day: The most difficult journeys often take us where we were meant to go... By: Nicholas Sparks

Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no