…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.

If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.

reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will probably never meet. I think it's very wrong to write in a way that leaves no room for the reader to maneuver. I don't want to get in the way. What I'd really like to do is to perform the Indian Rope Trick - go higher and higher and eventually disappear.

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

There are voices and they must be heard.

Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)

If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.