Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.

She wanted out of the decorating scheme.

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'

our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.