Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run.

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.

Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity

Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough.

A shot of brandy can save your life, but a bottle of brandy can kill you.

Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

Eighteen months ago I weighed 95kg and had a 40-inch waist. Now the waist is down to 34 inches and I weigh nearly 98kg.

I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.

We're far from having too much horsepower...my definition of too much horsepower is when all four wheels are spinning in every gear.

We have created stability, which is a necessary condition for development. But I can't call this system authoritarian.

We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.