The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

The past was so past it hurt.

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

Every men create some sound. Be a melody in this universe not a noise! If you become a melody, the whole universe will listen to you!

Understanding life is like trying to put together a puzzle with pieces that don't fit.

We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.

Sharing is just like spending, we give or spend for others while hoping them to be happy and better. At this way we can accept and find in our hearts the happiness that we want.

Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery

Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them.

That's my point: What's she [Hillary Clinton] got to show for her 30 years around town? Right on!

Motion is the sign of life.

If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.