On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

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.

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.

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.

As Ossie Jones crept out of his body and into the mist, his heart murmured till it was silent.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

No, I had no problem communicating with Latin American heads of state - though now I do wish I had paid more attention to Latin when I was in high school.

The love you liberate in your work is the love you keep.

Are you looking into Joe Biden's supposed botox shots in his forehead?

If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

Historians write favorably, you know, for example, about Stalin because he was doing big things.

I've been doing the Millarworld stuff for decades, and everybody seems really happy that's working on it.

Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left.