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" Most novelists write about twisted lives. "

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" 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. "

" Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars. "

" In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable. "

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

To Be Or Not To Be

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

" Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. "

" A writer needs a life of introspection. "

" I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know. "

" Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. "

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

" The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.' "

" To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. "

" Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels. "

" 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. "

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

" The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism. "

Totalitarianism

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

" When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle. "

" In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. "

" Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas. "

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

" The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape. "