Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.

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.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

If you work hard and you're good, you can build something for yourself.

Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

When you go out for drinks, tell people to bring in a news story that made them say "Oh my god." Talk about it.

I want to make the audience laugh and cry within ten seconds, to show just how close those emotions are.

You just got to be #patient, be focused, you know there are lots of distractions out there.

Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.