At moments like this I envy those who have found a safe haven in which to bestow their hearts; or perhaps I envy them for having a heart to bestow. I often feel that I myself am without one, and possess in its stead merely a heart shaped stone.

There is no fool like an educated fool.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them without feeling I'm acting.

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?