I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

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.

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.

Naked is the best disguise.

You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.

Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.

I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes is life in neat little coffins, the dead bodies of the past laid out side by side. I am discovering, now, in the late afternoon of the day, that the dead still speak.