I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.

If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.

We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.

My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer." "What's that?" "You have to find out what caused it.

I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

Exceed not thy actions, but limit not thy mind.

She loosened her grip on his hair and lightly scraped her fingernails over his cheek to his incredible lips."I could kiss you all day."Laith's gaze intensified."All right.

I was young enough to be an optimist.

I don’t just want to do the right thing. I want to WANT to do the right thing.

For me painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night a strangled laugh.

It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

In the past few months, I've become convinced of one thing: If I were a man, I'd be paid more.

Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.