We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.

Faint equivalents can sometimes be found ... . Or it can be rendered obliquely-an adolescent's mental image of his or her parents making love, which must be something on the order of crocodiles mating.

I don’t think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.

Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.

Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.

Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.

We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.