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I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness.
You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.
The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)
I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.
Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.
the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.
American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.
Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun.
I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.
If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.
We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.
Perhaps we've invented conspiracies for our own psychic well-being, to heal ourselves.
I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.
World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.
Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.
Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.
It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.
It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too."_Eric Packer
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.
Was she naked?" Lasher said. "To the waist," Cotsakis said. "From which direction?" Lasher said.
That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.
Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.
Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.
You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.
We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.
Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.
A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.
In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.