I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light, if not happier, than at least more active, le….

The truly fearless think of themselves as normal..

Why are you so interested in amoebas?" "Oh, they're immortal," he said, "and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being a person is getting too complicate….

But maybe, underneath, she loves him too much. Maybe it's her excessive love that pushes him away..

Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops..

Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblin….

I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet discovered t….

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time..

One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for ….

Gardening is not a rational act..

Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolo….

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word..

I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that to be told I had transcended my gend….

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young..

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them..

When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and s….

All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspe….

The interesting thing about the religious component, for me, is that Jesus hardly mentions sex at all. He's pretty interested in the poor, he's prett….

It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they k….

I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose..

It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else..