It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiasticall y they drive you to your own destruction.

I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.

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

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

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.

It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiasticall y they drive you to your own destruction.