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

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

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.

Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction.

Don't try moving mountains God ordained you to climb.

Praise begins a prayer.

Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.

God will show you who to partner with when the time comes.

President Obama said he plans on training 10,000 new math and science teachers. How about teaching math to that economic team of his?

Politics has become very unpredictable, making things so very difficult for individuals and also for companies.

Making mistakes is natural. Making mistakes is how we learn.

Coincidence is Gods way of staying anonymous.