There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

...it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.

Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.