Good writing is always new.

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.

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

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.

He was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering, flickering, melting, mixing, he was the shape of a shapeless flame, he was the eddying thread of needle-shapes in the shapeless mass of the waterfall. He was the invisible wind that hurried the clouds in billows and ribbons. You could see a bare tree on the skyline bent by the wind, holding up twisted branches and bent twigs, and suddenly its formless form would resolve itself into that of the trickster.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.