In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.

You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.

It happened, as many things do, imperceptibly, in many ways at once. I date it - the slow crumbling of my faith, the pulverization of my fortress - from the time, about a year after I had begun to preach, when I began to read again. I justified this desire by the fact that I was still in school, and I began, fatally, with Dostoyevsky.

Great art can only be created out of love.

Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.

If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.