There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

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

No emotion is the final one.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

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.