It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.

Don’t lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone’s little home.

I love the apparent quiet of reading a book. You sit there; you're not really moving. It looks very solitary. It looks very boring, but actually it's the most exciting place because it's going on for you, and you're in that relationship. In that sense, it's like being with a lover. Nobody else can intrude on that space. It's the two of you. It's your own world.

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.