Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

If you can smell garlic, everything is all right.

Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face.

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.