History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself.

I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure.

I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.