Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.