Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything.

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.

Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges from it can be thought of as metafictional.

My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound.

I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can lose some of its powers.

I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.

What we got is NOW, Huck, and now is forever. Until it ain't. So, you can't worry over nothing except putting off the end a your story as long as you can, and finishing it with a bang.

No matter how hot the fire burns, a Protea always survives

All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.

After awhile, marriage gets a little stale and you're looking for something to scratch that a little.

There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

I came to America so that I could work with the best and be the best.

I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

You see all I need is a whisper in a world that only shouts.

Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.

Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise.