i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.

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.

No point worrying about a storm until we smell rain

But your perfectly good bed doesn’t come with a blanket of stars.

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable.

Ultimately, our relationship with Christ is the one thing we cannot do without.

A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it - I think that's important.

I don't always know how to communicate. I think I get a bit unfiltered and a bit strange to people.

The biggest mistake we see companies make when they first hit Twitter is to think about it as a channel to push out information.