“I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.”
“Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.”
“If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.”
“I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.”
“I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.”
“I believe in communication books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.”
“Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.”
“However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.”
“Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.”
“The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.”
“You never give away your heart you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?”
“Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.”
“I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.”