On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.

I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.

I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.

One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.

There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.

Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.

Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.

I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.

I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.

But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.

I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

You can do whatever you want with my work.

You know I've had work banned.

Dreams are manifestations of identities.

Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors Berlin is a big slum.

I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.

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I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.