I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find the beginnings of the world.

..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.

Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough.