Jeanette Winterson

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.