Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.

With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.

There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.

No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline.