There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.

The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.

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.

A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.

I have been everywhere because I don't know what I'm looking for.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.