I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.

This is where the story starts, in this threadbare room. The walls are exploding. The windows have turned into telescopes. Moon and stars are magnified in this room. The sun hangs over the mantelpiece. I stretch out my hand and reach the corners of the world. The world is bundled up in this room. Beyond the door, where the river is, where the roads are, we shall be. We can take the world with us when we go and sling the sun under your arm. Hurry now, it's getting late. I don't know if this is a happy ending but here we are let loose in open fields.

Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.

One of the problems with watching TV is that you've got a fairly low level of language operating all the time. Quite a small vocabulary and really no conceptual or abstract thinking. That's an issue. If you've got a wide vocabulary, you can learn. The complexities of grammar, in themselves, force you to think about time in a particular way. Force you to widen your outlook on the world.

I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.

I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.

Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.