Develop your pawns or Hulk will smash.

The kernel, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances - is plagiarism.

I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.

Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as here on Flatbush, to be its grubby, enduring self.

When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved.

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

It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.