Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.

Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.

Babies change things, open doors you thought were shut, close others. Make you into something you never been.

If people really believed that rape made lesbians, and brutal fathers made dykes, wouldn’t they be more eager to do something about it?

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I’d rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

“I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.”

“We wanted a feminist revolution. I wanted it like a lover. I wanted it like justice.”

Behind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear.

The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn well better be beautiful.

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

“Fiction is the great liar that tells the truth about how the world really lives.”

“I was born trash in a land where the people all believe themselves natural aristocrats.”

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.