My guess is that she is uncomfortable in such an intransigent world but is unable to live accordingly to her own desire.

These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they could claim, as if without a tag they wouldn’t be human.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour others.

But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.