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

Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull.

One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"

Writers will happen in the best of families.

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.

[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.