I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join anything, however loosely.

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.

Somewhere between fear and sex passion is.

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. Ordinary professionalism and twenty years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. That still needs what it always needs - a condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything.