Somewhere between fear and sex passion is.

Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.

Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that a dream could tell the truth.

I didn't want to be in the teeming mass of the working class.[...] I didn't want to live and die in the same place with only a week at the seaside in between. I dreamed of escape - but what is terrible about industrialisation is that it makes escape necessary. In a system that generates masses, individualism is the only way out. But then what happens to community - to society?

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

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.

The fact is that every atom that we're made of is part of that first explosion of a nuclear star billions of years ago. We're connected to the entire universe.