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.

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.

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