Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.

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

What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

She was a monster, but she was my monster.

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.