We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech - but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun.

Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

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.

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap's versifying.

You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.