I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books.

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

The past was so past it hurt.

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

The cost of electrons and photons is getting cheaper all the time!

Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

you act out what it feels like to be the one who doesn’t belong. And you act it out by trying to do to others what has been done to you.

Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.

I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

The fruit of keeping covenants is the companionship of the Holy Ghost and an increase in the power to love.

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

All I've ever wanted to do was be a great dad, and yet there's no stopping this existential mirror that's held up to yourself when you're about to have a kid.

Creating safety is your first job [as therapist], and then once that's established, you can use many tools to help someone see the folly in their thinking.