I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.

When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of perception beyond his individual body.

Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.

I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.

Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance.

The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for.

I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose, the texture of time as it passed, life's white machine.

Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and art - emphasize how capitalism is a totality, how there's no escape from it, no outside.

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.

What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a story lets in some other sort of light.

Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.

IT'S ME!

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's thechoices we make that define who we really are.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers.

I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.

It may look impossible, but God can do the impossible. Just because you don’t see anything happening doesn’t mean God is not working

Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.

Human beings are 70% water and with some the rest is colagen

A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said.