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.

Everyone for the most part is really nice. There have always been jokes, but that's part of being in the spotlight. You can't make everyone completely happy.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.