I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn't know why, but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone.

Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

The sound of words in a novel is a pretty amazing thing, and I am concerned with the sound of every word I write.

I suppose you could say I love outlaw American culture.

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other. And the important thing isn't whether I'm angry. The more important thing is, is it true? Do these things really happen?

That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.