There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.

I've learned that the flesh that clothes us means very little." Prince Ashton

The poor lads called and called, but they were grown and had forgotten the best places to hide.

The knish is a classic example of peasant food evolving into comfort food and even sophisticated fare.

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

I get my inspiration from everyday life, things people my age are going through in life, good and bad experiences.

The few things I’d sacrificed, or put on hold, to be with my husband and baby were worth it.

When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular message.

Autism's an important part of who I am, but I'm a college professor and an animal scientist first. And I wouldn't want to change 'cause I like the logical way I think.

People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs

I think everybody realizes some things went wrong in the Middle East and that most of the terrorism is emanating from that area.