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The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.
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I don't mind being artificial sometimes, because I like veiling myself. I mean, I'm not honest or sincere: I am self-centered and narcissistic. I just want to be this entity.
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Don't make the mistake of thinking you're Facebook's customer, you're not – you're the product,
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Keep a record of every picture you paint, have them photographed and write down where they went. Some day, when one reaches a great age, there will be calls for a Retrospective Exhibition of a life's work.
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[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]
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I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there.
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I think a sexual energy is a positive energy.
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If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.
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The question of identity has always been a murky issue in my own life and my writing bounces that right back. My father was adamant that my sisters and I were "Arab," and even though our house was in Syracuse, it was filled with the food, language, music, and overbearing relatives of Jordan. Unlike my gorgeous sisters, though, I inherited my mother's lighter complexion - it really is amazing what a difference a little bit of pigment can make on a person's experience!
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I came, I saw, she conquered." The original Latin seems to have been garbled.
