The past was so past it hurt.

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.

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.

Everyday, I end up with your chat on top. Everyday, I end with knowing you a bit more. Don't know whether you're mine or not, but everyday is making me the right person to you.

Books bring alluring colors to our mundane black and white world.

Each of us play a unique role in the history of life. What legacy do you want to live behind?

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Talent is important but it is not the key point.

As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.

I have multipersonality disorder - in a very good way, of course - when it comes to my fashion choices.

But the internet had changed everything: nobody was forgotten anymore.

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

Your objective of being in love with each other will require both you and your spouse to focus your attention on the other's most important needs.