In a sense, I may not consciously know what I'm doing. I feel that I'm telling a story. I'm a kind of medium by which something is transmitted.

Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it.

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction.

Where there must be a choice, a girl will choose Daddy. Even if you are Mommy, you concede that this must be so: you remember when you were a girl, too.

Is there any mystery like who you finally turn out to be.