If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones and talk about fishcakes.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.

History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea.Or the people who found Atlantis.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently

There's no choice that doesn't mean a loss.

I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.

It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

For me, Twitter has given me a direct line to the world - it gave me an opportunity to be like, "This is my voice.

To avoid lying, do nothing that needs covering.

I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing.

We have a situation where we have a lawmaker here in California who says that if you spank the child, you spank them, you're going to go to jail for a year or you're going to pay a $1,000 fine.

Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.

It's thematic in my career, if you look at most of my choices. It is some level of exploration of maternal angst and maternal heroism.