For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years. Like some people who cannot vomit despite horrible nausea, she lay there unable to die, resisting death as she had resisted life, frozen with resentment of process and change.

Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The collage as a flexible hieroglyph language of juxtaposition: A collage makes a statement.

Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of intense irritation give evidence that we are not dealing with logic but with faith.