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.

I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?

When I was 6, I saw a commercial that Jessica Simpson was in, and that was the first time I felt my little heart flutter.

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.