I think the first trick to writing a feminist work is to write plenty of women. That way you get to write characters, instead of worrying about paradigms.

When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.

And there's nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk.

Don't wish for bricks when you can build from stone.

Na razrusha'ya. I am not ruined. E'ya razrushost. I am ruination.

Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.

The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?

What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.

Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it.

There’s no such thing as too much champagne. Though your head will try to tell you otherwise tomorrow.

I wanted to believe anything so that I wouldn’t have to face the future alone. The problem with wanting is that it makes us weak.

This world has need of song and sword.

The Republican Party - that was the end of the Republican Party. What Pete Wilson did with the xenophobia and the negative attitude, all this sort of anti-crime backlash.

There are three things you cannot hide: smell of the garlic, fragrance of the flower and the wisdom of the teacher.

Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.'

Getting away from being 'a good girl' is important because it's impossible to be a 'good girl' and a writer at the same time.

Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy.

It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.

Illusion never changed into something real.

Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.