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

The state of love is this constant flux back and forth between who's saving and who's rescuing, who's wanting and not wanting, who's needing and who isn't. It's always going back and forth between two people who are actually attached.

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

When you're waiting for a bus, the thing to do is smoke a cigarette.

That was one of the problems with the Narcissus figure. Here is a face looking at a face, and the problem is the image of the thing is never actually the thing. You try and grab it and it's not there. It's water. It disappears.