Shuttered like a fan no-one suspects your shoulder blades of wings..

I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder. Theyall want to be heroes and all we want is for them to stay at home and help with the housework an….

Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent..

She was a monster, but she was my monster..

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us, and it outlives its personal moment. All of ….

When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned to love with my whole body. I would let death ente….

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's..

They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad..

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self..

In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies are slo….

Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer than an in….

Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one.

It's great to win a few prizes early on. It helps a writer to get noticed and to get some sales. It can also be a pain in the arse because it gets in….

Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant..

…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt..

I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another ch….

What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of i….

Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the ….

Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not..

When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the way you think, and it gives….

We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied, and they're e….