I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don't want to drown. My head is my heart's lifebelt.

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

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

If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.

Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.