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

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

" Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. "

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

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

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

" If little else, the brain is an educational toy. "

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

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

To Be Or Not To Be

" Writing is the hardest physical work there is. "

" 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. "

" The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism. "

Totalitarianism

" In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury. "

" There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven. "

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

" 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. "

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

" We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. "

" 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. "

" Well, I have never, ever Googled myself. "

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

" Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. "

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

" A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence. "

" Most novelists write about twisted lives. "

" The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. "

" I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.' "