Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable.

We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

Never turn down an adventure without a really good reason.

Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone.

It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.

Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story ... The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.