Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know.

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars.

From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.

I'd rather be a freak than a clone.

Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life.

Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.