If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else.

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up