Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.

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.

Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.

To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.