Diary (novel)

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the fucking cheque clears.

Going to spring break at Ft. Lauderdale, getting drunk and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by…

All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.

Well, that glove's fulla vaseline. Vaseline? What the hell for? Well, I tell ya what - Curley says he's keepin' that hand soft for his wife.' Ch. 2, p.29

A good novelist, or so I have been taught in China, should be above all else tse ran, that is, natural, unaffected, and so flexible and variable as to be wholl…

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.