Humans have given away all their power to a they. You aren’t able to fight the system because without the system none of you can survive.
History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
It is the duty of every generation of writers and artists to find fresh ways of expressing the habitual circumstances of the human condition. To serve up the lukewarm remains of yesterdays dinner is e...
Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)
Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination.
What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to sco...
Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
The past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness of the present - the new chance.
We live as best we may in a world of worms.
The human heart is my territory. I write about love because it’s the most important thing in the world. I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.
She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some things, but for others, there was no reason there. She’d spent a long time...
She grew in secret, away from their eyes. Outwardly she was obedient and loving, but inside she was feeding a hunger—
Perhaps art is an eye problem…
Passion is sweeter split strand by strand.
I’m telling you stories. Trust me. I
In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.
I've turned myself inside out to try and avoid what happened today. You affect me in ways I can't quantify or contain. All I can measure is the effect, and the effect is that I am out of control.
I've always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home myself. I've worked hard at being the hero of my own life. But every time I checked the register of displaced persons, I was s...
I want to touch you.''And if you did touch me, what then?''I would find a language of beginning.
I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.