I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.

As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.

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.

I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.