As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.

There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies

I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is a tight rope between two worlds.

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there

You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.

But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.

Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.