“Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.”

“To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be...”

“Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion”

“In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.”