To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?

Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.

Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.

I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Just on the other side of creativity is the nuthouse - and I often notice people looking at me strangely when I am talking out loud, but there is no other way.

The only selfish life is a timid one.