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.

In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.

And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.

And I’m working at trying to find a kind of language where I won’t be so easily modulated by expectation.

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it’s really the talk for those who have.

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

Meanwhile the temperature is getting hotter and hotter so no one can think clearly. No one perceives. No one cares. Insane madness come out like life is a terrific party.

INTENSE SEXUAL DESIRE IS THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLDJaney dreams of cocks. Janey sees cocks instead of objects. Janey has to fuck.This is the way Sex drives Janey crazy: Before Janey fucks, she keeps...

But I still don’t have a clear idea of what my voice is.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

What she really wanted […] was […] “to experience every emotion to the limit” so she could go beyond every limit.

I wasn’t really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

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...