All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.

I think most people dont like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly dont want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.

Life has no beginning, middle or end.

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.