“The moment of writing is not an escape...it is only an insistence, through the imagination, upon human ecstasy, and a reminder that such ecstasy remains as much a birthright in this world as misery remains a condition of it.”

“Style, after all, is a kind of humor,Something truly beneath contempt...”

“This story has no point but stillness itself...”

“Awas! Cinta itu pembawa virus gila!”

“Because different cultures see a particular animal as representing a certain human virtue or vice, the use of animal imagery also allows for more colorful commentary on the human condition.”

“In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.”

“It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.”