Destiny is a worrying concept. I don’t want to be fated, I want to choose.
Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?
There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.
Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you’ve lost forever. There is only now.
There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what’s dead. It won’t complain.
Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing.
There’s no story that’s the start of itself.
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own.
As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.
I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you’ll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.
Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.
I don’t read reviews because by then it’s too late – whatever anyone says, the book won’t change. It is written.
Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
Confidence and superiority: It’s the usual fundamentalist stuff: I’ve got the truth, and you haven’t.
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.
Naked is the best disguise.