Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.

Paradise is for those who make paradise.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.

Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures, in silence; and when we come back, it may be very hard to describe where we have been.

Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer's first duty is to use language well.

I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.