A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.

The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it? Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.

The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that ­others are demanding to be given it back - to be "taught" - is disturbing.

I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.

Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.