Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.

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.

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

Sometimes, we need to accept that life doesn’t always go the way we planned.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

When my first daughter was born, I had to figure out a new way of [making music] so that I wouldn't wake her up.

Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.

No jockey ever won a race by carrying the horse across the finish line; no coach ever won a volleyball match by touching the ball during play.

God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.

Prayer is an effort of will.

The only people who have trouble with poetry are the people who link it with literature. It's much more akin to mountain-walking, and dancing by yourself at 2 A.M.

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.