The criticism that has most consistently bothered me is the allegation that I'm a schlockmeister whose only objective is to shock people.

I don't think it's entirely paranoid to suspect that one day, you won't be able to so much as question the primary tenets of anti-racism without going to jail.

If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.

I could have completely lost my mind or became a junkie or abandoned all sense and judgment and committed some rash, stupid act that would have sent me right back into the cage. Instead, I chose to be happy - but not so much for the sake of happiness as for spite.

In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent.

Anti-racist propaganda is relentless and inescapable, as if the propagandists fear that if they shut up about it for a second, they'd instantly become racists themselves.

Homosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up.