I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.

The life of the mind is always more interesting than the real. The idea is often more interesting than the actual.

I've never had a problem with the old truism about dancing to architecture. I think you can dance to architecture. There's some pretty funky architecture to dance to.

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc.

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.

Solitude always gives birth to something.

She's in the Catskill, " Shopie began, but Scathach reached over and pinched her hand. "

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in manual labour

This fight isn't about boxing, it's something deeper than that.

Respect whatever it is [ Confederate flag] that you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it in a museum.

As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.

an artist is always seeking revelation.

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.

Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.