I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk.

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.

For once, engulf, not air, but hope.For once, breathe on, a firm belief!

i sometimes think i'm too in love with alone. who could i love more than this peace?

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

The climate crisis requires a bottom-up, grassroots demand for solutions because the elites in many parts of the world are under the influence of old industry.

Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted

Not many people know this, but I literally own only one pair of heels!

In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.

It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance.

I don't have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to.

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.