In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.

I can't get upset about 'offensive to women' or 'offensive to blacks' or 'offensive to Native Americans' or 'offensive to Jews' ... Offend! I can't get worked up about it. Offend!

Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.

I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life.

My disappointments stand up and grow ever taller. They will not be lost to me.

In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other.

It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.