The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life.

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.

I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.

It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change.

The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all live, it’s the narrative of our lives, but adoption drops you into the story after it has started. It’s like reading a book with the first few pages missing. It’s like arriving after curtain up. The feeling that something is missing never, ever leaves you – and it can’t, and it shouldn’t, because something is missing.

Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.