Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything.

Time is how you spend your love.

An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply

She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.

It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.

Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.

She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.