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You know I've had work banned.
All memory can do is scream for touch.
A novel is a book with a lot of pages.
Dreams are manifestations of identities.
The whole world is men's bloody fantasies.
Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.
Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run.
I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.
I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.
Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.
I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent.
The more rapidly the water moves, the lighter it seems.
I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.
I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.
Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.
There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.
If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.
There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.
Thats what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.
That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.
We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.
Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.
But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.
And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.
You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want.
The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.
There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it
Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.
Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.
I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?
GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.
I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.
I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.
I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.
I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.
i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.
One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.
And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.
Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.
Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.
A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.
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.
My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer." "What's that?" "You have to find out what caused it.
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.
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.
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.
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.