He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight.

I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.

World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.

It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between.

Say heat. Say wet between my legs. Say legs. Seriously, I want you to. Stockings. Whisper it. The word is meant to be whispered.

I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.