I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?

I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.

I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all.

I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. Some story we must have. Stray words on crumpled paper. A weak signal into the outer space of each other. The probability of seperate worlds meeting is very small. The lure is immense. We send starships. We fall in love

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

When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.