I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.

It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.

Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.

For example, you have these grotesque, hilarious, profane ghosts in the book [Lincoln in the Bardo]. Even the concept of talking ghosts is, from an aesthetic point of view, grotesque. But you seem compelled by that risk in order to get to the other end of the equation.

Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.