Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.

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 believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

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

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

Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.