If we keep on fucking, I’m not gonna die.

I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.

I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can’t be seen fully. It’s sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.

I don’t think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It’s something else. It’s not banning. It’s something else.

One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.

Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

I mean, once work’s out there it’s meant to be used.

We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways – you know minor ways and major ways – like what you’ve just encountered which isn’t censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in...

You know I think many writers are dangerous to the establishment. I mean, they go against all the rules that you’re told writing.

There’s a backlash against womyn that’s really bad right now.

LESBIANS are women who prefer their own ways to male ways.LESBIANS prefer the convoluting halls of sensuality to direct goal-pursuing mores. LESBIANS have made a small world deep within and separated from the world.What has...

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

I write it to get it out of me. I don’t write it to remember it.

You know, I’ve been told that by some of the writers in the generation above me: You’ll be able to write when you’ve found a voice.

Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I’m at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.

I’m really fascinated and you know I’ve been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.

Life doesn’t exist inside language: too bad for me.

Traveling around I don’t think people are that horrible, I think they just don’t know.

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I’m not so...

Burroughs was a very political writer.

There’s a point at which when I start to know a man well–this isn’t true of women–I wonder whether there’s something in him that’s evil. Something that’s pure and can’t be touched. This quality of...

But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.

Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.

We’ve been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.

I think it’s really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.

Dreams are manifestations of identities.

You can do whatever you want with my work.

Every angel is terrifying.Through the darkness, they move silently…I will go down into death with you.I must go where I must goTo see what I must seeIn that place where no one knows…… This is...

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

I mean, they censor your work when they’re scared of it.

[…] A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced.

I’m no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever in wonder. The difference between me as a child and me as an...

I understand that when people read my books that there’s something there – but I don’t identify with it.

It was only when we were in that bed, high above the world – then I thought the birds could have been circling around our bodies circled around each other – that we made our...

Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I’m grateful when you use it.

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we’re free and easy, and actually we’re far more moralistic than any other society I’ve ever lived in.

I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.

There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn’t bother to read it

I’m very staid compared to my students, actually.

What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?

You know I’ve had work banned.

That’s what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

If you read every poem in every anthology of Greek poetry, you wouldn’t read one poem in which a character of the woman who’s loved is described or matters.

After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his...

Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.

But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in order to save this world, she neither noticed nor cared...

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don’t get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

First of all, writing at best – certainly fiction writing – more and more I think is magic.

I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent.