The future belongs to crowds. Votes: 6
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. Votes: 4
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. Votes: 0
People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it. Votes: 0
Rushdie is a hostage. Votes: 0
Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail. Votes: 0
Tourism is the march of stupidity. Votes: 0
We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books. Votes: 0
A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it. Votes: 0
I never wanted to change the world. Votes: 0
That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly. Votes: 0
...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity. Votes: 0
Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances. Votes: 0
There is a world inside the world. Votes: 0
days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too."_Eric Packer Votes: 0
Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn. Votes: 0
Facts are lonely things Votes: 0
You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen. Votes: 0
I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood. Votes: 0
Was she naked?" Lasher said. "To the waist," Cotsakis said. "From which direction?" Lasher said. Votes: 0
The dead have a presence. Votes: 0
Isn't death the boundary we need? Votes: 0
People will always make comparisons. Votes: 0
In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere. Votes: 0
Something lurked inside the truth. Votes: 0
Off-camera lives are unverifiable. Votes: 0
War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country. Votes: 0
Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses. Votes: 0
Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link. Votes: 0
Hardship makes the world obscure. Votes: 0
Evil is movement towards void. Votes: 0
Freud is finished, Einstein's next. Votes: 0