[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare, crucial novels illuminating a history we think we know and understand so that after we've read it we'll never forget its truths.

Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.

Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.