Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.

Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.

Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.

People are like tea bags; you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.

Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.