Culture is that which falsifies.

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.

Self-improvement is possible only through time conversion in solitude.

It is the man who loves reading books who gets to know himself

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid.

It is my belief that books are living things.

Do not primarily train men to work. Train them to serve willingly and intelligently.

I'm good with machines. I know where to scratch, pet, and tickle them.

I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.

When you're feeling lonely and no one is around Remember to look inside yourself and a best friend will be found

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.