friendship was always contingent.

It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots.

What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else.

You're dead, Cordelia.' No I'm not. 'Yes you are. You're dead. Lie down.

I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.

You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.

I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will.