We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that..

I'm a professional food eater..

There are no more liberals Theyve all been mugged..

There is never only ONE of anything in nature..

I have not been recognized..

Amateurs do things 'till they get it right. Pros do it 'till they can't get it wrong..

When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently..

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage..

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument..

The original deal we made was that Walker would be treated like a regular movie, rather than an arthouse thing..

I regretted making a comment about Dave Eggers. I’ve never said anything about McSweeneys except that I admire what it is, and I think it’s great tha….

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie..

There have been so many instances in my life where movies, music, or literature has made my life tangibly better..

This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting of God's image in us..

You get what you get when you get it..

I have learnt more from my failures than my successes..

Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be..

A runway is like a shrink's couch; stuff just comes out..

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me..

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest..

I have nothing to say. And I am saying it. That's poetry..