"Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise."
- Jeanette Winterson
"For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed."
"The riskiness of Art, the reason why it affects us, is not the riskiness of its subject matter, it is the risk of creating a new way of seeing, a new way of thinking."
"Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?"
"Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue."
"What are the unreal things but the passion that once burned one like a fire? What are the incredible things but the things that one has faithfully believed? What are the improbable things but the thin..."
"But if what can exist does exist, is memory invention or is invention memory?"
"Look up. This is the season of shooting stars. Light, two thousand years old, still dazzling. Let me see your face. Your face lit up by twenty centuries."
"Progress is not one of those floating comparatives, so beloved of our friends in advertising, we need a context, a perspective. What are we better than? Who are we better than? Examine this statement:..."
"I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking."