I admire Eudora Welty. 'Delta Wedding' is a book I've given as a present to numerous women. Eudora Welty rocks. She writes such jewel-like, fine, refined short stories.

I never take pictures. Skies are much larger in reminiscences and my friends are much better-looking. Photos crop reality into little squares; instead, I have very good binoculars.

I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way.

There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.

My social status in the last year has gone from zero to hero.

I wanted to hear my own whispers in the next room and know that I was thinking of me.

In the rural South, the only interesting people were the sexual deviants. Everybody else was able to be part of the mainstream, and could find a way somehow.

The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics.

I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading my stuff voluntarily. They should be doing it because they want to.

People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something that's just a tad more normal.

I really like writing in English, and it's the best job I've ever had.

My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.

No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hand of the person they love.

The world has physical limits that we are already encountering, but our economy operates as if no physical limits exist.

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.

An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.

The nice thing about piracy is, it allows the public to get independent art, to get a variety of music and movies.

Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

Christ offers us the incredible opportunity to trade temporary goods and currency for eternal rewards.

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.

I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.