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.

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.

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.

God never leaves His children to wander alone. We are always surrounded with unconditional love.

To lead and live the life of your dream, you must arise and be in-charge of the authorship of your own destiny.

One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.

Every kind of knowledge, every science, is as a tree: if the fruit of it be the love of God, then is it a blessed tree, but if not, that tree is but dried-up wood, and shall only feed the fire

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

Misery doesn't only love company. It demands it. For this reason, don't walk away from negative people. RUN!

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?

Love looks like something.

You teach a little by what you say. You teach most by what you are.

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.