Occupation: Novelist Birth: October 24, 1945 Death: May 11, 2016
Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent con….
I am here, come closer," the old donkey said with her eyes. "I will mother you..
Beside Mama, in my own folding chair, with my feet sticking out in front of me, I thought about my own innards. Just a few months before I'd had no i….
I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object..
Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over..
We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness..
My perception of the human animal is as an extremely dangerous predator. That's who I perceive us to be as a species. Maybe the most dangerous predat….
There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too much sky, too many mi….
From the time I was little, I'd been kind of freaked out by the whole deal with large groups of people. And even moderate - sized groups of people. I….
Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated, or just pla….
What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always v….
Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees..
Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling y….
I do not plan any painting, but begin with layers of textures and colors. As I layer the colors, something is suggested to me from within, and that i….
In my next life, I plan to be a more respectable creature. For now, this is what is given to us. So I don't know - I think we're all freaks at heart.….
I come from a family of great readers and storytellers..
I do consider the human capacity for violence is the central issue of the social contract. In boxing we have a peculiarly civilized form, in that box….
It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocenc….
Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how p….
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous de….
They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born..