There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.

Early in the phase of being in a female body, there's all this desire that comes at you, a lot of it hostile, a lot of it dangerous, a lot of it ruinous.

I don't think you can have an imagination without having fantasy, and you can't have that rich a life without an imagination.

There's a quote that I learned in college a million years ago. "Happy, thought I, is the man who can, in one and the same embrace, hold both his love and the object of his love." Holding the feeling that you have and all the images that you've got and all the fantasies and romantic associations while also holding the actual core person that's been saddled with all of this.

I was born in Australia and grew up in the foreign services. I had this kind of trans-Pacific life. I think I was always sort of oriented towards here's Australia and here's America and here's the Pacific.

There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.

I know perfectly well that you can't not want anything and live.