Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.

I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.

I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.

We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.

Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.

True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't believe it. Like the universe, there is no end.