Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is like a soul, and that every soul should have its own body.

Your children learn more of your faith during the bad times than they do during the good times.

...photography is made essentially of time. I often think that what we show is a point in time, more than a window onto space.

The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me.

Humans change themselves through technology.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

I suppose the danger when you have a job that involves writing is you can be a bit isolated.

Literature usually begets literature.