I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Just on the other side of creativity is the nuthouse - and I often notice people looking at me strangely when I am talking out loud, but there is no other way.

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

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

Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.