I don't believe in sexual love.

I grew up with tarot cards and the reading of tea leaves.

My favourite tea is lapsang souchong.

I'm more a dog person than a cat person.

I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.

I've never been baptised.

[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and that one bland monoculture does not swamp everything.

If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.

If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.

Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old Testament' that I don't especially like.

I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

Love people who hate you. Pray for people who have wronged you. It won’t just change their life…it’ll change yours.

Intellectual curiosity and the human brain are the root of science.

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling.

Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

In life there is not time to grieve long.

Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.