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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

to be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running

Leaders live by reality and not by assumptions!

Life's a crapshoot, Sam. At least you filled the cheap seats.

What is necessary is never a risk.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now.

In order to deviate successfully, one has to have at least a passing acquaintance with whatever norm one expects to deviate from.

Faith is the willingness to look foolish.