If you want to change things in the USA it's best not to spend all your time writing but to take action against the ol' sea of troubles.

Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement.

Having a voice unlike another means you've "found yourself" as a writer.

I don't have a philosophy. I have an instinct. I accept stuff that I like.

The Internet is perfect for delivering large blocks of text to people throughout the world for free. That's a plus. The downside is the ADD, the Internet-addled Attention Deficit Disorder.

The Web ultimately is a medium used by real offline people, and as such, it'll probably be whatever we are.

There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.

Online writing is supplementary, complementary, another part of the whole, something that's only as important as one's investment in it.

I'm an only child and an American and am wholly in favor of uniqueness of voice in everything, especially music and writing.

The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said about the work of any generation of writers.

America's all about the various voices, right? When we all speak with a common voice we verge on fascism, which is militaristic, and fundamentally anti-American.

It’s your action that reflects on the others’ reaction. If you expect good you are forced to be good.

The invisible things are the value system.

We do not need to end Medicare. We don't need to throw people who are younger than 55 years old to the wolves which is what we do.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty.

Art has always got more and more extreme, and it will continue to get more and more extreme.

God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

It's not healthy to be jealous.

I love the sport and being competitive.