I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.

Writing is the one art form that really should allow you to hang yourself.

Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.

But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.

Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.

In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing.

Im not trying to do conceptual art.

I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.

Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.

Beware of corporate government cops.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

You can really get into it - especially in the movies, where you really have the time to get into your character and play her well.

It's bizarre to me that you can have political commentators, sports commentators, weather commentators, but with medicine, people go, "You can't do that."

To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.

Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.

In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the writer) have to go out beyond where you have gone before.

From the moment an organizer enters a community, he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing, and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army.

I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without it I think I would crumble into dust and drift away.

I started making music with my band in the 80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.