My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound.

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.

Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges from it can be thought of as metafictional.

I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can lose some of its powers.

Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything.

I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.

What we got is NOW, Huck, and now is forever. Until it ain't. So, you can't worry over nothing except putting off the end a your story as long as you can, and finishing it with a bang.

Actions are stairs and reactions are slides

Society does not judge those it admires, they are deified. Yet it so eagerly burn those it fails to understand

Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger would be abnormal. All of of us feel angry at least occasionally.

I want to see the stats for how many crosses there have been; it's been incredulous

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.

Being a good embalmer is a thankless job.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

There's so much spectating going on that a lot of us never get around to living.

Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls into question the structure of patriarchy itself.

Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.