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

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.

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

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

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask.

The ultimate hate speech is to endorse homosexuality.

Avoid activities outdoor. If you like to take an afternoon nap sleep under bed net. So these are measures that can be done to minimize [the] chance of infection [with Zika virus].

Just when you feel like hauling him off and strangling hin, he gets some goal out of nowhere.

If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.

We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess.

The script is the foundation, but it's not the full story for the film, which only comes alive with the actors.

Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.