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" I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured. "

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" If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering. "

" I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me. "

" The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes. "

" I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India. "

" I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors. "

" Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. "

" My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy. "

" The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism. "

Totalitarianism

" If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it. "

" People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up. "

" When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself. "

" Most novelists write about twisted lives. "

" A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans. "

" One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires. "

" The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce. "

" We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. "

" The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being. "

" To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen. "

" We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. "

" Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language. "

" I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic. "

" John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?' "

" True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. "

" There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for. "

" I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe. "

" To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. "

To Be Or Not To Be

" I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. "

" The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies. "

" I have never ever Googled myself; in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things. "

" I'm not infatuated with frivolousness. We're just good friends. "