Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.

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.

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.

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