And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

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.

They fired arrows at me, but I did not fire back. I picked them up instead to build my castle.

And one bad mistake which is called love..Can drive you insane till rapture..

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

What was with this family, that all the sons were so freaking handsome it hurt to look at them

We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.

What we do in life ripples in eternity.

I do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the Cooper versions that I do - I have one for Iceland, different one over here.

In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.

Would you respect a God you could comprehend? And yet very often that’s what we want - a God who reflects our culture, our biases, our economic, political, and military systems.

Don't ever use duct tape on your privates. That's what I always tell people.