Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction.

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

The past was so past it hurt.

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

With love, accept what is happening. Don’t shout at what should happen with anger.

If you are lucky you will have the opportunity in your life to be owned by a good piece of land.

20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That’s assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut.

My hand-stitched wings itchto take flightto test the winds of changethat inevitably blow at the end of a cycle.

A little inhumanity does not describe you as heartless, rather, it is a way of telling others that you have a heart that can get angry.

I love pizza. I want to marry it, but it would just be to eat her family at the wedding.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.

No eternal learning can take place without that quickening of the Spirit from heaven.

Ahhh... It's good to be young and insane.