I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that's true, maybe all stories are worth hearing, but not all stories are worth telling.

The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing.