Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.

If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever asks this hates and fears both writing and women.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their flesh to meat. But Man alone seeks Vengefulness, And writes his abstract Laws on stone; For this false Justice he has made, He tortures limb and crushes bone. Is this the image of a god? My tooth for yours, your eye for mine? Oh, if Revenge did move the stars Instead of Love, they would not shine.

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.

More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?

I am not your justification for existence.