Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.

I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.

I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.

Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples.

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

Some of the exuberance of my essay-writing has gone because I'm worried about the uses they could serve.