I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in books. God, forget scissors - that's beyond the pale.

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in books. God, forget scissors - that's beyond the pale.

Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.

To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.

Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.