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Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.

Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.

Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.

It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.

She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.

If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.

To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.

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

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo.

I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.

Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem.

Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.

I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

There's so little wonder left in the world because we've seen everything one way or another'.

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

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.

When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.

Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?

I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.

We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.

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

Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.

I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.

Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.

Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.

Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

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