• NL: How would you like to be remembered as a writer?

T.C. Boyle: I would like to be read. Again, if there will be paper, and there will be people, I’d like to be read. I would like to be remembered as someone who bridged the writers of the late sixties and early seventies and the realist writers of the eighties, someone who created a kind of fusion and did something a little different and pointed in another direction. As someone who was totally absorbed with and deeply engaged in what he was doing. It’s my whole life, this art. I’ve given up just about anything else. It’s what interests me and what sustains me.

"That's because I read it" Ohio Representative Denis Kucinich at the Democratic Presidential Debate in Las Vegas, explaining why he was the only candidate on stage who had voted against the U "Mr. Narrator/This is Bob Dylan to me/My story could be his songs/ I'm his soldier child"-History Lesson Part II

"If I would have graded it in red ink, it would have looked like arterial bleeding"- Gary Simpson

"You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists."-Abbie Hoffman

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.- Anais Nin