You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?

Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem.

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

Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private library, which is a reflection of their minds and their selves.

He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.

To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her, or if not I, the imprint of myself - my fossil-love

I love the apparent quiet of reading a book. You sit there; you're not really moving. It looks very solitary. It looks very boring, but actually it's the most exciting place because it's going on for you, and you're in that relationship. In that sense, it's like being with a lover. Nobody else can intrude on that space. It's the two of you. It's your own world.