"I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life."

-- Manuel Puig

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“A few months ago you assassinated a man who called himself a god; now you're going after a goddess in truth. Unless you can figure out a way to kill continents, after this you're going to have to retire.”
“I got my equity card, found my agent, and then I got a part on 'Gilmore Girls.' That turned into a job that kept giving - they wrote more for me.”

Source : "Of Barbecue and Vampires". Interview with R.U. Steinberg, www.austinchronicle.com. June 13, 2013.
“Rated R movies are few and far between, nowadays. We're all seeing less and less rated R movies, and less and less of them are being made.”
“The other thing is that doctors test only the most common estrogen level. There are three kinds of estrogen in a woman but they don't test the other two because they are so rare; mine was the third kind of estrogen.”
“In the deep space of the sea I have found my moon”
“When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all; they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices.”
“I assumed that some of the gold bars I received were melted gold teeth.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
“For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't as well documented and partly because, until recently, people didn't care. We used euphemisms like 'sackings' and 'sieges' instead of calling them 'genocides.'”

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