The music of the Stones pounds the air like the amplified pulse of my erection.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.

I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.