You are safe with me." "I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.

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.

Good writing is always new.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost.

No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three months, and where my thoughts are, there am I, in truth".