When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."

If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.

Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Old age is life's parody.

If you are writing something in which you are really involved, you don't even need to think about it any longer. The situation itself demands your total commitment as an individual, just as in your political commitments.