I don't know whether I am different from other people. Perhaps I am. Perhaps no one has a personality, and people are inventing themselves in the context in which they find themselves.

The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.

I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.

The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.

I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.