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.

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.

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.

In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.

The world can be such a fright, but it belongs to us tonight.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

Politics has become entertainment.

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.

I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad.

We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.

The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.