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.

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.