Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

With publicity comes humiliation.

The older a woman gets, the more invisible you become.

Most of my life is just spent lying in bed. I mean, it's enough pressure to write the words. Do I need to use the additional energy exerted by sitting up?

The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.

Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.

Why would I want to read something about somebody that's just a really nice, decent person who overcomes terrible trials? That's not how life is to me.

I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn’t know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.

I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price I was there to receive it.

I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

Brownstein's is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own.

The mine is always bigger than the gem.

What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.

Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.

Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time.

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.

I don't think that Donald Trump is a racist.

All our problems are spiritual, and our only spiritual problem is not realizing we are spiritual.

Because I could see that all these kids were weird and even they didn't accept me, I knew I was the strangest one of all.

When you take the bull by the horns...what happens is a toss-up.