The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said about the work of any generation of writers.

Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement.

Having a voice unlike another means you've "found yourself" as a writer.

I don't have a philosophy. I have an instinct. I accept stuff that I like.

The Internet is perfect for delivering large blocks of text to people throughout the world for free. That's a plus. The downside is the ADD, the Internet-addled Attention Deficit Disorder.

The Web ultimately is a medium used by real offline people, and as such, it'll probably be whatever we are.

There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.

If you want to change things in the USA it's best not to spend all your time writing but to take action against the ol' sea of troubles.

Online writing is supplementary, complementary, another part of the whole, something that's only as important as one's investment in it.

I'm an only child and an American and am wholly in favor of uniqueness of voice in everything, especially music and writing.

America's all about the various voices, right? When we all speak with a common voice we verge on fascism, which is militaristic, and fundamentally anti-American.

I live life in spirit of love and light.

Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.

The first thing we learn from studying our own circuitry is a simple lesson: most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control.

We need a great president.

I don't look in the mirror and think that I have flaws. I actually look in the mirror and see me. I see a lot of different characters and a lot of different things.

I don't know if it's better to have people laugh at what you are or just not understand.

Words challenge eternity.

I grew up with three brothers and no sisters. That's the best preparation for politics any girl can have.

Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.

For love is heaven and heaven is love.