I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame..

People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can salt your hear….

What you eat is the most political thing you do every day.

The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly, never finding what you want, unless you ha….

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever r….

I drove to Oxford with my van full of petrol and tin cans, as I didn't know there were service stations on the motorway. I pulled up on the hard shou….

There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books are activities that ….

Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman's heart, a piece of land, a kingdom, a lordship, a contract, a ….

St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry. She wanted to be a nun. She hoped I woul….

In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun..

If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to- because time passes. The pursuit of hap….

I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong. And every day it's pr….

If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found..

The truth is that you can divide your heart in all sorts of interesting ways - a little here, a little there, most banked at home, some of it coined ….

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult..

If people aren't educated, they can't question. If they can't question, they can't change anything, which is great for the status quo and all the peo….

What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?.

It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you u….

The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something..

What I want does exist if I dare to find it..

Passion is for holidays, not homecoming..