“Everything in this world is about conflict because this is the kind of world that humans are born into.”

“All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.”

“But what I do believe is that if you're a girl who was born in Homsea, a girl who lives in a nothing kind of house with an ordinary kind of family, then you can't know everything about the world and that it's probably good to keep an open mind about things, just in case.”

“Our greatest human potential is expressed when the consciousness of our inner world and the consciousness of the outer world are lived fearlessly without a conflict between either side.”

“There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything.”

“The human heart is my territory. I write about love because it’s the most important thing in the world. I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.”