All memory can do is scream for touch.

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.

Excuses, we all have them, but successful choose not to use them

Skill + hard work = SuccessSkill + hard work + prayer = Great success

I'll try to see you as just a friend, but it's gonna take a while. So please be patient, okay? Let me be in love with you for just a little longer.

Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

Love is pure and kind and forgiving. It is the greatest gift of all.

This is almost the most famous story The last samurai - Samurai story - in Japan.

Cause I enjoy both, I enjoy recording and playing live, but yeah, the rush of playing live is really something.

Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.