“You will never reach your destiny until you are able to grab the best out of yourself.”

“it doesn't matter how you are looking..but how you want to look ....it matters.”

“If I ever get rich, I'm going to buy you an elephant.”

“When he picked out the [gravesite] plot, my father had joked that he was moving, at last, to the suburbs.”

“Erotic literarature is literature in which eroticism is the novel. It focuses on that. It also implies a certain degree of description, a certain hard core. And to find novels in which you have plot, character, literary quality, plus detailed and real moving descriptions of fucking is a rarity. There is a vibration which takes place in the erotic realm, which translating it into something else, demeans it and destroys it. You need real poetry to talk about that sort of thing.”

“My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons reversed and out of order, dogs barking from behind fences meant to keep out intruders. It's not the place that impoverishes me but I who bring my own sense of poverty, of loss, to the place. It's a sense of near nothingness, as though I were not so much a blank slate as an erased chalkboard, still bearing illegible smudges of smoothed-over writing.”

“Writing is like a noble gas, it expands to fit the container it is placed in. If you give me until Thursday, I’ll procrastinate until it’s due.”